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

• 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。
• Please wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请稍等片刻好吗？我就来！
• He liked having servants to wait on him.
  他喜欢有仆人侍候他。
• She looked around for a salesman to wait on her.
  她环顾四周.找售货员接待她。
• He gained maturity from being on loan and we have to wait on and trust that.
  他从租借中获取了经验，我们必须等待并抱有信心。
• Don't expect me to wait on your hand and foot, make your own breakfast.
  不要样样都指望我伺候你，你的早饭你自己做。
• We can't wait on them forever.
  我们不能永远等他们。
• Our commercial agent will wait on you next Monday.
  下周一我们的商务代表将拜访您。
• So you'd come back to work and wait on me.
  好让你回去工作接待我。
• To wait on me like those plantations back home.
  有像家乡种植园一样的仆人伺候我。