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

• He gained maturity from being on loan and we have to wait on and trust that.
  他从租借中获取了经验，我们必须等待并抱有信心。
• Mrs. Collins gave me leave to wait on you.
  柯林斯太太让我在这儿等你。
• To wait on me like those plantations back home.
  有像家乡种植园一样的仆人伺候我。
• Wait in the back or wait on the side.
  在后面等或者在边上等。
• 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。
• In Linux, there is no way to do a timed wait on a waitpid() call.
  在Linux中，使用waitpid（）调用无法等待限定的时间。
• She looked around for a salesman to wait on her.
  她环顾四周.找售货员接待她。
• I will wait on the balcony.
  我在阳台上等。
• 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。