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

• 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。
• 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。
• Daddy cannot bide me, because I swear at him.
  爸爸才受不了我呢，因为我乱骂他。
• The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying Tis you, tis you must go and I must bide.
  夏天已经逝去，花儿开始枯萎你必须得离去，而我会一直等待。
• 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。
• I bide my time and the hour of vengeance is nigh.
  我在等待时机，报仇的时刻就要到了。
• 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。
• 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。