首页英语词典waitwait的意思

wait

英 [weɪt] 美[wet]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词defer delay postpone linger off table tarry put shelve procrastinate stay

vt. 等候；推迟；延缓
vi. 等待；耽搁；伺候用餐
n. 等待；等候
n. (Wait)人名；(英)韦特；(捷)魏特

基本词汇高频词CET6考研TEM4CET4

词态变化

第三人称单数: waits;过去式: waited;过去分词: waited;现在分词: waiting;

中文词源

wait 等待

来自古法语waitier,看管，照看，来自PIE*weg,醒来，活力，词源同wake,vigil。引申词义等待。拼写来自过去分词-ct ，后字母c脱落，比较法语词源feat,benefit,au fait.

英英释意

1. time during which some action is awaited;: "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"

2. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something);: "the wait was an ordeal for him"

英文词源

wait: wait: [12] Wait originally meant ‘look, spy’. But the notion of remaining in hiding, keeping a watch on one’s enemies’ movements led via the sense ‘remain, stay (in expectation)’ to, in the 17th century, ‘defer action’. The word was borrowed from Old Northern French waitier, which was itself a loanword from prehistoric Germanic *wakhtan (ultimate source also of English waft). This in turn was formed from the base *wak-, which also produced English wake, watch, etc. The sense ‘serve food at table’ emerged in the 16th century from an earlier ‘attend on’.
=> waft, wake, watch
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- (cognates: 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;" see wake (v.)). 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.

To wait (something) out "endure a period of waiting" is recorded from 1849. Waiting room is attested from 1680s. Waiting list is recorded from 1841; the verb wait-list "to put (someone) on a waiting list" is recorded from 1960. Waiting game is recorded from 1835, originally in horse-racing.
When speed, not stoutness, is the best of a horse, quite a contrary system is practised. With such a horse, the jockey plays a waiting game; that is, he carefully nurses him through the race, so as not to distress him by overpacing him; as the finish approaches, he creeps up to his horses by degrees, but does not quit them to go in front till he sees that the pace has made them "safe," -- when he lets loose and wins. [James Christie Whyte, "History of the British Turf," London, 1840]
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.).

同义词辨析

wait, await

这两个动词均含"等，等待"之意。

wait：普通用词，侧重静候于某处，直到等候或期待的人或事物的到来，通常用作不及物动词，与for连用。

await：正式用词，及物动词，通常指不断等待，多含耐心意味。

考试真题

The woman is waiting for a call.

What is the woman waiting for?

This is not the first time we've had to wait for her.

He is irritated at having to wait for Jane

Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move.

I did all the cooking myself and my wife waited on tables.

Well, I'm afraid we must wait until all the applications are in, in writing, and we'll then decide on the short list.

We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside.

It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop

I wrote to about six hotels and one of them gave me my first job, so I didn't have to wait too long.

Ask the name of the person waiting on you.

Fantastic! I'll just wait in the lobby.

Happy golden birthday! I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back.

I can't wait, and if Tom goes, we could go sailing.

I do want to get married, but she thinks we need to wait until we've launched our careers.

Oh, wait, it's your girlfriend, isn't it?

so, I'm really enjoying it and I can' t wait for my next session, although the lessons are rather expensive.

There are people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be.

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration ( ' , FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

One needs the designers, and perhaps the regulators, before the builders and operators, and each group of workers in training has to know there is work waiting beyond graduation.

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.

She's excited because, as she puts it, "I don't have to wait [until] 15 years from now" to make sense of the world

Waiting for someone at the airport

The other people would e-mail and wait up to two weeks for an answer.

She will wait for the man at the south gate

The man has to wait to get his medicine.

I hope you are not to put out with me for the delay ,I had to stop for the Fred's home to pick up a book on my way here M : well , that's not a big deal ,but you might at least phone if you know you will keep someone waiting Q : what do we learn about the women

M : sorry to have kept you waiting ,Madam , I've located your luggage, it was left behind in Paris and won't arrive until later this evening W : oh ,I can't believe this ,have it been to delivered to my hotel then ,I guess Q :what happened to the woman's luggage

She often keeps other people waiting.

I can't wait to see them, I'm wondering if the shots I took are as good as I thought.

Most seeds can wait out the dry, unwelcoming seasons until conditions are right and they sprout.

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration FA and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

A cousin to the watched-pot wait is the forced wait.

According to London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the "standing "side.

After all, forced waiting requires patience.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

Because of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.

But we have to wait in line to pay for these things we need.

During these waits, the brain slips away from the body and wanders about until the water runs over the edge of the counter and onto your socks.

Good idea! Could you make sure the taxi will be waiting for me outside at 8: 00 p.m.?

Great! I can't wait to show them around our new house.

He's still waiting for a flight out of New York.

I can't wait! there's so much to see and do and eat! Paris has some of the most wonderful cheeses in the world.

I could hardly wait to meet him.

I could hardly wait to try this adventure again.

I got here a few days ago, on Saturday...oh, no, wait a minute...sorry, Friday, not Saturday.

I hurried directly to my backyard, where an apple tree patiently waited for me.

I read somewhere that we spend a full third of our lives waiting.

I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a habit.

If the self-centred guest arrives late, the nine others at the table set for ten will have to wait.

I'll wait for you at the office.

I'm waiting for the train to central station.

Into the complete silence of the waiting class came the teacher's sweet voice, "Good morning, children."

It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

It is more fruitful than the forced wait.

Marian Bechtel sits at west palm beach's bar louie counter by herself, quietly reading her e-book as she waits for her salad.

Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait.

Now Alia waited for the war to end and dreamed of peace and a new library.

Obediently, my class lay their heads on their desks, closed their eyes and waited.

Oh, wait a minute! I made a mistake.

On march 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

On the surface it seems as ridiculous as following the directions on soup mixes, but the lucky-break wait well serves those who are willing to do it.

One day, while waiting to go in for treatment, I had one of dr.

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about being late for school.

Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the lucky-break wait.

Properly preparing packaged noodle soup requires a forced wait.

Science projects waited until the last moment.

She couldn't wait to tear the newspaper apart.

She'd look at me with those sad brown eyes of hers, beam her need, and then wait, trusting I would understand — which, strangely, I almost always did.

She'd watch me coming down her street, and by the time I'd biked up to her doorstep, there'd be a cold drink waiting.

Such activities fill the spaces that used to be dead time such as waiting for somebody to arrive for a lunch meeting.

The author supports his view by analyzing different categories of "waits".

The donor can only wait for that long.

The forced wait makes people passive.

The forced wait requires some self-control.

The girls on the wesleyan academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm, eighth-grader Taylor bisbee shivered a little as she watched her teammate Paris white play.

The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

The rest of us have to evade them or just stand still to wait for the unavoidable collision.

The very purest form of waiting is the watched-pot wait.

The watched-pot wait engages body and brain.

There were many people waiting at the bus stop, and some of them looked very anxious and disappointed.

They waited to see what the rest of the class would do.

This kind of wait makes the waiter helpless and mindless.

This type of wait is unusual in that it is for the most part voluntary.

Turning one's life into a waiting game requires faith and hope, and is strictly for the optimists among us.

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

We certainly do spend a good deal of our time waiting.

We have been waiting here for more than two hours.

When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away.

While doing a watched-pot wait, we tend to get absent-minded.

Yet the bad news is students have been made to wait outside before school.

You are waiting at a wrong place.

You go ahead, and I'll catch up on some sports news while waiting.

Your friend can wait outside for the discussion.

In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance.

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker's allowance.

We don't have time to wait.

We will have to wait and see exactly how these hard times will reshape our social fabric.

词组搭配

in wait

watching for an enemy or potential victim and preparing to attack them

伺机（攻击敌人或潜在的牺牲品）

he decided to lie in wait for the thief.
他决定埋伏等待那个小偷。

wait and see

wait to find out what will happen before doing or deciding something

等着瞧

wait for it

(Brit. informal)do not act before the proper moment

(英，非正式)等待时机

patrol—wait for it—halt!.
巡逻——等待时机——停！。

you wait

used to convey a threat, warning, or promise

（表示威胁，警告或许诺）等着瞧；等着吧

you wait until your Dad gets in!.
等着，你爸来了再说！。

wait on (或upon)

act as an attendant to (someone)

服侍，招待

a maid was appointed to wait on her.
指派了一个女仆来服侍她。

(Austral./NZ & N. English informal)not do a particular thing until something else happens

(澳／新西兰，北英格兰，非正式)等待，等候

wait on, I've an important message for you.
等着，我有重要消息告诉你。

wait on 或 wait upon

To serve the needs of; be in attendance on.

满足…的需要；服侍

To make a formal call on; visit.

造访：正式拜访；访问

To follow as a result; depend on.

作为一个结果；依赖于

To await

等待

They're waiting on my decision.
他们在等我的决定

wait out

To delay until the termination of

推迟直至结束为止

wait out a war; waited out the miniskirt craze.
直等到战争结束；等到迷你裙风潮过后

wait up

To postpone going to bed in anticipation of something or someone.

熬夜等候：为等待某事或某人而推迟睡觉

&I{Informal} To stop or pause so that another can catch up

【非正式用语】等：为使别人赶上而停止或暂停

Let's wait up for the stragglers.
让我们等等掉队的人

实用场景例句

She rang the bell and waited.: 她按铃后等候着。

Have you been waiting long?: 你等了很久了吗？

I've been waiting (for) twenty minutes.: 我等了二十分钟。

Wait for me!: 等等我！

We're waiting for the rain to stop before we go out.: 我们要等到雨停了再出去。

I'll wait outside until the meeting's over.: 我要在外面等到会议结束。

Hurry up! We're waiting to go.: 快点儿，我们等着走呢。

You'll just have to wait your turn (= wait until your turn comes) .: 你得等着轮到你才行。

Leeds United had waited for success for eighteen years.: 利兹联队企盼夺冠已经十八年了。

This is just the opportunity I've been waiting for.: 这正是我一直在期待的机会。

He's waiting for me to make a mistake.: 他正盼着我出错呢。

I walk to a street corner and wait for the school bus...: 我走到街角等校车。

Stop waiting for things to happen. Make them happen...: 不要坐等事情发生。要创造条件让它们发生。

...the four-hour wait for the organizers to declare the result.: 组织者宣布结果之前长达4小时的等待

There'll be a car waiting for you...: 会有辆汽车等你。

When we came home we had a meal waiting for us...: 我们到家时，有一顿美餐正等着我们享用。

I want to talk to you, but it can wait...: 我想和你谈谈，但可以晚点再说。

Any changes will have to wait until sponsors can be found.: 任何改变都要等找到赞助商之后再作决定。

If you think this all sounds very exciting, just wait until you read the book...: 如果你觉得所有这些听起来令人兴奋，那就等着去读这本书吧。

As soon as you get some food inside you, you'll feel more cheerful. Just you wait.: 吃点儿东西你就会打起精神的。等着瞧吧。

'Wait a minute!' he broke in. 'This is not giving her a fair hearing!': “等一下，”他插嘴说，“这没有给她一个公平的解释机会！”

There were plenty of servants to wait on her...: 有很多仆人服侍她。

Each student is expected to wait at table for one week each semester.: 每学期每个学生都要在餐厅服务一周。

We can't wait to get started...: 我们迫不及待地想开始。

It's gonna be great. I can hardly wait...: 那一定很棒。我都等不及了。

Arms bend. Arms upward. Wait for it. Stretch.: 手臂弯曲。手臂上举。保持一下。伸展。

A cool $500,000 is to be spent on obtaining genuine 17th-century air from the inside of, wait for it, an occupied lead coffin.: 将花费整整50万美元获取货真价实的17世纪的空气，注意了，是从一个内有尸体的铅制棺材里获得。

We'll have to wait and see what happens.: 我们只好等等看将会发生什么。

...a wait-and-see attitude.: 观望态度

Well, what are you waiting for? Do I have to ask you for a kiss?: 那你还等什么呢？难道要我求你吻我吗？