wait
wait 英 [weɪt] 美 [wet]
vt. 等候； n. 等待；等候
进行时:waiting 过去式:waited 过去分词:waited 第三人称单数:waits 名词复数:waits
- A wait is the time it takes for something to happen. The wait to get the brand new computer was four hours long, but it was worth it.
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- vt. 等候；
- n. 等待；等候
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1. wait for the bus
等公交
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2. Tell them not to wait.
告诉他们别等了。
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3. Don't push in,wait in line like everyone else.
不要插队，像别人一样排队等候。
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4. Wait for me!
等等我！
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5. He's waiting for me to make a mistake.
他正盼着我出错呢。
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6. We had a long wait for the bus.
我们等公共汽车等了很长时间。
- wait (n.) early 13c., "a watcher, onlooker," from Old North French wait (Old French gait "look-out, watch, sentry"), from Old North French waitier (Old French gaitier; see wait (v.)). Compare Old High German wahta, German Wacht "a watchman." From late 14c. as "an ambush, a trap" (as in lie in wait). From 1855 as "time occupied in waiting;" 1873 as "an act of waiting." From the sense "civic employee responsible for signaling the hour or an alarm by sounding on a trumpet, etc." comes the old sense "town musicians" (mid-15c.).
- wait (v.) c. 1200, "to watch with hostile intent, lie in wait for, plot against," from Anglo-French and Old North French waitier "to watch" (Old French gaitier "defend, watch out, be on one's guard; lie in wait for;" Modern French guetter), from Frankish *wahton or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *waht- (source also of Dutch wacht "a watching," Old High German wahten, German wachten "to watch, to guard;" Old High German wahhon "to watch, be awake," Old English wacian "to be awake"), from PIE root *weg- "to be strong, be lively." General sense of "remain in some place" is from late 14c.; that of "to see to it that something occurs" is late 14c. Meaning "to stand by in attendance on" is late 14c.; specific sense of "serve as an attendant at a table" is from 1560s. Related: Waited; waiting.
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