wait around

英 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

美 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

（长时间地）干等，空等

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 wait about


• PHRASAL VERB (长时间地)干等，空等
  If youwait aroundorwait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
  1. The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike...
     袭击者也许一直都在等待着动手的机会。
  2. I waited around to speak to the doctor.
     我干等着跟医生说话。
  3. ...the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport.
     在机场候机时的百无聊赖

双语例句

• You say his expecting me to drive him to see the meeting and wait around till he's finished? I'll see him damned first.
  你是说他想让我开车送他去开会并等到他把会开完了吗？让他见鬼去吧。
• If you don't like what's there now, wait around, it might change to something new in a couple days.
  如果你不喜欢它现在的样子，静静的等待，或者几天之后又会变成一个新的样子。
• Don't wait around for your manager to give it to you on her own.
  不要空等着你的经理主动给你加薪。
• The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike
  袭击者也许一直都在等待着动手的机会。
• It's wrong for you to just have to wait around for an answer.
  让你苦苦等候一个答覆是不对的。
• We have to wait around for a search warrant?
  我们要留下等搜查令吗？
• I waited around to speak to the doctor.
  我干等着跟医生说话。
• Will you please wait around for me?
  请在附近等我好吗？
• Why not have his accomplices wait around the corner in a cargo van?
  而不是让他同伙坐着货车上等在角落？
• And you must wait around for it until then.
  你必须一直等到书完成为止。