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

• Bide your time and he'll snuff it.
  忍耐一下，他会知趣的。
• Post a visible reminder that this job is only temporary. When I once worked in a job I hated, I helped bide my time by hanging a reminder on my bulletin board that said, This is only temporary.
  醒目地标示这只是一个临时工作当我做令自己讨厌的工作时，我等待时机的方式就是在电子告示牌上挂上提示：这只是临时的。
• Very well. I'll bide my time.
  很好！我会等待我的时机的。
• On days like this it's hard for young men to bide quiet at home.
  在这样的日子里，年轻人很难静静地待在家里。
• 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。
• If we bide our time, the change will come.
  如果我们等待时机，机会一定来的。
• To bide the time until that day comes, we've collected some of the cutest superdogs we could find.
  在那一天到来之前的漫长等待时间里，我们已经收集了一些我们所能够找到的非常可爱的超级狗。
• Humans know how to wait, to bide their time until the story is complete.
  人类知道如何等待时机，耐住性子，直到事件结束。
• 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。
• 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。