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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Joseph had gone,'she continued,` but I thought proper to bide at home.
  “约瑟夫已经走了，”她接着说，“但是我想我还是留在家里合适些。
• 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。
• If we bide our time, the change will come.
  如果我们等待时机，机会一定来的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Well, I told him to beware,'said my companion;` and he must bide the consequences of neglecting my warning!
  “唉，我告诉过他要小心，”我的同伴说，“他忽视了我的警告，就一定更遭到这后果！
• 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。