wait on

英 [weɪt ɒn]

美 [weɪt ɑːn]

等待（某事发生）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 等待（某事发生）
  If youare waiting onsomething, you are waiting for it to happen, for example before you do or decide anything.
  1. Since then I've been waiting on events...
     自那以后，我就一直在观望事情的发展。
  2. We cannot wait on the government to make changes at its own pace.
     我们不可能等待政府按照它自己的步调作出改变。

英英释义

verb

• work for or be a servant to
  1. May I serve you?
  2. She attends the old lady in the wheelchair
  3. Can you wait on our table, please?
  4. Is a salesperson assisting you?
  5. The minister served the King for many years
  Synonym:serveattend toattendassist

双语例句

• Mrs. Collins gave me leave to wait on you.
  柯林斯太太让我在这儿等你。
• Users can keep entering information and the application isn't going to wait on the server.
  用户可以继续输入信息，应用程序不会等待服务器。
• So you'd come back to work and wait on me.
  好让你回去工作接待我。
• We cannot wait on the government to make changes at its own pace.
  我们不可能等待政府按照它自己的步调作出改变。
• Wait on event occurrences with the select()( or a blocking read()) system call.
  使用select（）（或阻塞的read（））系统调用等待事件发生。
• Wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请等我一下，好吗？我马上就来！
• She looked around for a salesman to wait on her.
  她环顾四周.找售货员接待她。
• Please wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请稍等片刻好吗？我就来！
• We'll have to wait on line for40 minutes.
  我们还需要等40分钟才能开打。
• I will wait on the balcony.
  我在阳台上等。