Nervously, I waited for the worst to happen.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

I moved here and I waited for 6 weeks.

我搬到了这里，然后等了六个星期。

这里的快乐时光 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then, as one who'd waited precisely for her maledict voice to hoarsen, I outshouted her in these terms: "Therefore come to bed, my equal, uncursing, uncursed!"

我瞅准时机，等她的咒骂声一减弱,我大吼起来，盖过了她的声音：,你不是要平等吗，那就床上见，别老跟我念咒了“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I got a room and waited for the start of my class.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

But what if instead of taking the fluid from a cow, I inoculated--he inoculated me, let's say, and waited until I had the lesion at the right stage, then took some of my fluid and gave it to Brian and Nate and Mirtalla and spread it through the community around me.

但假如不从奶牛那儿取得脓液,假设说是从他那里接种,等到病变程度合适,然后把我的脓液给,布莱恩和纳特还有米特拉,并在我身边的人们之间传播

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"I think maybe they should have waited a little bit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10