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

• To wait on me like those plantations back home.
  有像家乡种植园一样的仆人伺候我。
• 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。
• So you'd come back to work and wait on me.
  好让你回去工作接待我。
• We can't wait on them forever.
  我们不能永远等他们。
• I don't fetch or carry for you, or wait on you personally.
  我没有给你拿这拿那，或者单独伺候过你。
• Mrs. Collins gave me leave to wait on you.
  柯林斯太太让我在这儿等你。
• He liked having servants to wait on him.
  他喜欢有仆人侍候他。
• This servant will wait on your guests.
  这个服务员将为你的客人服务。
• 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。
• Wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请等我一下，好吗？我马上就来！