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，等待：期望中保持或休息：waiting for the guests to arrive.See Synonyms at stay 1等待客人的到來(lái)參見(jiàn) stay1To tarry until another catches up.停留：滯留直至別人追上To remain or be in readiness：等待：保留或處于準(zhǔn)備狀態(tài)：lunch waiting on the table.午餐在桌上放著To remain temporarily neglected, unattended to, or postponed：延遲：暫時(shí)被忽略、不照料或推遲：The trip will have to wait.旅行還得推遲To work as a waiter or waitress.服侍：作招待或女招待v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）To remain or stay in expectation of; await：等：期待某事；等：wait one's turn.等待輪到自己Informal To delay (a meal or an event); postpone：【非正式用語(yǔ)】 推遲：推遲（就餐或事件）；阻延：They waited lunch for us.他們?yōu)槲覀兌七t午餐To be a waiter or waitress at：擔(dān)任侍者：在…作招待或女招待：wait tables.在桌旁服務(wù)n.（名詞）The act of waiting or the time spent waiting.等：等的行為或等候的時(shí)間Chiefly British 【多用于英國(guó)】 One of a group of musicians employed, usually by a city, to play in parades or public ceremonies.公共樂(lè)隊(duì)隊(duì)員：常被一個(gè)城市雇傭的一隊(duì)音樂(lè)家，在游行或公共儀式中演出One of a group of musicians or carolers who perform in the streets at Christmastime.沿街唱圣詩(shī)的人們：圣誕節(jié)時(shí)在街上演出的一樂(lè)隊(duì)或唱圣歌的人wait on 或wait uponTo serve the needs of; be in attendance on.滿足…的需要；服侍To make a formal call on; visit.造訪：正式拜訪；訪問(wèn)To follow as a result; depend on.作為一個(gè)結(jié)果；依賴于To await：等待：They're waiting on my decision.他們?cè)诘任业臎Q定wait outTo delay until the termination of：推遲直至結(jié)束為止：wait out a war; waited out the miniskirt craze.直等到戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束；等到迷你裙風(fēng)潮過(guò)后wait upTo postpone going to bed in anticipation of something or someone.熬夜等候：為等待某事或某人而推遲睡覺(jué)Informal To stop or pause so that another can catch up：【非正式用語(yǔ)】 等：為使別人趕上而停止或暫停：Let's wait up for the stragglers.讓我們等等掉隊(duì)的人For more than a hundred years critics have stigmatized the use ofwait on ( and somewhat less frequentlywait upon ) to mean roughly “await” or “wait for,”as inWe are still waiting on the committee vote. This use is so widespread in both educated speech and reputable writingthat the traditional objections have come to seem unnecessary.一百多年來(lái)評(píng)論家一直貶低wait on （ 有時(shí)也較少使用wait upon ） 作為“等待”或“等候”意義的用法，如在我們?nèi)栽诘却瘑T會(huì)的投票. 這種用處在演講和寫(xiě)作中用的是如此普遍，以至于原來(lái)的反對(duì)已經(jīng)看起來(lái)不必要了。

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