wait up

英 [weɪt ʌp]

美 [weɪt ʌp]

等着不睡; 熬夜等待; （尤指）等待夜归的人; 走慢点; 等一等

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 等着不睡;熬夜等待；（尤指）等待夜归的人
  If youwait up, you deliberately do not go to bed, especially because you are expecting someone to return home late at night.
  1. I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him...
     我希望他没指望你熬夜等他。
  2. Don't wait up.
     不要熬夜等着。
• PHRASAL VERB 走慢点;等一等
  If you ask someone towait up, you are asking them to go more slowly or to stop and wait for you.
  1. I was running down the hill shouting, 'Michael, Michael, man, wait up'.
     我边往山下跑边喊：“迈克尔，迈克尔，嘿，等等我。”

双语例句

• Hadn't we better wait up for the slower ones?
  我们停下来等等走得慢的人不好吗？
• I try to wait up, but today was just too much.
  我想熬夜等你的，可是我今天太累了。
• I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him
  我希望他没指望你熬夜等他。
• Don't wait up for me-i've got my key.
  别等我来再睡觉&我有钥匙。
• She told her parents not to wait up for her. She might stay with her aunt.
  她告诉她爸妈，不要等着她不睡，她可能在姨家过夜。
• Hey, Zhao feng, wait up! I just got this new stamp from brussels.
  喂，赵锋，等等，我刚刚得到一张布鲁塞尔的邮票。
• There's not much difference. I used to wait up half the night for George to go, and now I wait up half the night for him to come home.
  “没有太大的区别，过去我总是熬到半夜等乔治离开，现在我总要熬到半夜等他回家”。
• Wait up. I've got something for you.
  等等，我有东西要给你。
• The FSA said the UBS traders took advantage of rules that allowed the international desk to wait up to 24 hours before specifying which account number they were trading for.
  fsa表示，瑞银交易员利用了这样一条规定，即允许国际部门在指明自己交易的账号方面，可等上至多24小时。
• In China, would-be drivers can wait up to a year for a license and pay double the$ 420 that one costs in South Korea.
  在中国学车，可能要等上一年才能拿到驾照，而且花费是在韩国所需的每人420美元的两倍。