wait是什么意思？

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.