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

• So you'd come back to work and wait on me.
  好让你回去工作接待我。
• 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。
• He liked having servants to wait on him.
  他喜欢有仆人侍候他。
• The nouveau riche is hiring more people to wait on him and paying them more.
  这些暴发户们雇佣了更多的人来服侍他们，支付的工资也有所提高。
• 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。
• I will wait on the balcony.
  我在阳台上等。
• Mrs. Collins gave me leave to wait on you.
  柯林斯太太让我在这儿等你。
• 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。
• Wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请等我一下，好吗？我马上就来！
• Since then I've been waiting on events
  自那以后，我就一直在观望事情的发展。