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。
• This servant will wait on your guests.
  这个服务员将为你的客人服务。
• 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。
• We wait on your reply to our letter.
  我们等着你们的回信。
• Our commercial agent will wait on you next Monday.
  下周一我们的商务代表将拜访您。
• So you'd come back to work and wait on me.
  好让你回去工作接待我。
• 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。
• Wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请等我一下，好吗？我马上就来！
• Please wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请稍等片刻好吗？我就来！
• 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。