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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Bide still until you feel better.
  安静一会儿直到你觉得好一些。
• They bide their time and know intuitively that it will not be long before they are called into action.
  他们在等待他们的时刻，直觉告诉他们在他们被呼叫进入行动前都不会再遥远。
• Bide your time and he'll snuff it.
  忍耐一下，他会知趣的。
• 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。
• I've got to bide my time, it doesn't happen overnight.
  我要用时间去展开我的工作，这绝不是一朝一夕能解决的。
• 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。
• 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。