wait up

英 [weɪt ʌp]

美 [weɪt ʌp]

等着不睡; 熬夜等待; （尤指）等待夜归的人; 走慢点; 等一等

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 等着不睡;熬夜等待；（尤指）等待夜归的人
  If youwait up, you deliberately do not go to bed, especially because you are expecting someone to return home late at night.
  1. I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him...
     我希望他没指望你熬夜等他。
  2. Don't wait up.
     不要熬夜等着。
• PHRASAL VERB 走慢点;等一等
  If you ask someone towait up, you are asking them to go more slowly or to stop and wait for you.
  1. I was running down the hill shouting, 'Michael, Michael, man, wait up'.
     我边往山下跑边喊：“迈克尔，迈克尔，嘿，等等我。”

双语例句

• 'Come on, Grace,' he was urging her, 'don't wait, hurry up.'
  “快点啦，格雷丝，”他催促道，“别等了。快点。”
• That's'cause our school's broke, hey, yo, wait up.
  因为我们学校坏了，你等等。
• Hey! June, wait up. I need to talk toyou.
  嗨，琼，等等，我要和你谈谈。
• There's not much difference. I used to wait up half the night for George to go, and now I wait up half the night for him to come home.
  “没有太大的区别，过去我总是熬到半夜等乔治离开，现在我总要熬到半夜等他回家”。
• I'll be very late tonight, so don't wait up for me.
  今晚我要很晚才回来，所以不要为我等门了。
• I try to wait up, but today was just too much.
  我想熬夜等你的，可是我今天太累了。
• In this situation, experts and officials should be sympathetic to the ordinary people do not wait any longer, or if it is given to those holding high property prices, even Wujin wait "up" developers?
  在此局面下，专家、官员们应该把同情给予除了观望再也无计可施的老百姓呢，还是给予那些为了守住高房价而不惜捂紧楼盘等待“回暖”的开发商呢？
• Hey wait up, want some whisky with ice?
  嗨！等一下，要不要再来杯威士忌加冰？
• I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him
  我希望他没指望你熬夜等他。
• Hadn't we better wait up for the slower ones?
  我们停下来等等走得慢的人不好吗？