bide

英 [baɪd]

美 [baɪd]

vi.  等待，停留; 居住
vt.  等待; 等待时机

现在分词：biding　过去式：bided　第三人称单数：bides　过去分词：bided　

BNC.19163 / COCA.18820

习惯用语

v.

bide your time
• 等待时机
  to wait for the right time to do sth

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 等待时机；等待良机
  If youbideyourtime, you wait for a good opportunity before doing something.
  1. He was content to bide his time patiently, waiting for the opportunity to approach her.
     他乐于耐心等待接近她的良机。

英英释义

verb

• dwell
  1. You can stay with me while you are in town
  2. stay a bit longer--the day is still young
  Synonym:abidestay

双语例句

• If we bide our time, the change will come.
  如果我们等待时机，机会一定来的。
• I am just going to bide my time and hopefully the chance comes and I can take it.
  我现在要坚持过这一段时间，希望当机会来临的时候我能够抓住它。
• For now, bide your time and make sure your work is flawless.
  现在静静的守候同时确保你的工作完美无瑕。
• Sellers, meanwhile, are reluctant to lower their prices, preferring to bide their time.
  同时，卖方也不愿降低他们的价格，宁愿等待他们的时机。
• Waters stink soon, if in one place they bide.
  要知道，不流动的水会很快发臭。
• If we bide our time, I'm sure the reporters will call the politicians 'bluff.
  如果我们等待时机成熟，我确信记者就会揭穿那些政治家的谎言。
• EXAMPLE: Although he did not get a job immediately, the talented young man decided to bide his time hoping that conditions would improve.
  尽管这位有才能的年轻人没有马上得到工作，但他决定耐心等待，期望环境能够改善。
• Otherwise we should rather fall back and carefully bide our time. I was retired on full pay.
  否则宁可退让，持重待机。给我全薪让我退休了。
• She made no immediate objection, for she must bide her time.
  她并未立即反对，因为她必须耐心等待。
• Bide here a bit, and the cart will soon come, no doubt,'said Mrs Durbeyfield.
  “在这儿等一会儿吧，马车很快就要来了，这是用不着怀疑的，”德北菲尔德太太说。