wait简单

“Otherwise, you miss the boat, you lose all the seed and you’ve got to wait another seven years,” says Kettle.

“否则，你就会错失良机，失去所有种子，不得不再等七年。”凯特尔说。

Five years ago, at summer’s end, Andrew Fusek Peters was diagnosed with bowel cancer. “I was waiting for surgery, feeling really ill, sitting in my garden. It was amazing weather and there were painted lady butterflies everywhere,” he says. “They were a symbol of fragile life, of hope and defiance, and something appealed to my soul.”

五年前的夏末，安德鲁·富塞克·彼得斯被诊断出患有肠癌。“我在等待手术，感觉非常难受，坐在我的花园里。天气好极了，到处都是小红蛱蝶，”他说，“它们象征着脆弱的生命，象征着希望与不屈，有某种东西打动了我的灵魂。”

Decide whether to wait

决定是否等待

We don't have time to wait.

我们没有时间等待。

wait

等待

Like, ‘Wait a minute, is this OK?’

比如说，‘等一下，这样做可以吗？’

Enhanced security measures since then, combined with a rise in airline travel due to the improving economy and low oil prices, have resulted in long waits at major airports such as Chicago’s O’Hare International.

此后加强的安保措施，加上经济好转和低油价带来的航空出行增加，导致芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场等大型机场出现了漫长的等待。

Which of the following contributes to long waits at major airports?

下列哪一项导致了大型机场的长时间等待？

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

如今申领求职者津贴要等待七天。

Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.

等候名单不断变长，而我们建造的新房根本不够。