Waiting orders.

等待命令中。

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We have been waiting for help and orders.

我们一直在等待援助和命令。

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Waiting is an enchantment: I have received orders not to move.

等候是一种着魔：我接到了命令，不能走开。

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President Lincoln knew that he would be criticized for issuing such orders without waiting for congressional approval.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

But China Youth Daily says that such offers are "evasive" and officials should just go ahead and declare assets without waiting for orders.

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Mr. Dodge wants to drastically cut the number of cars sitting in lots and in transit in the U.S. by "pushing" hotter products instead of waiting for orders to "pull" them to showrooms.

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The trouble is not the troops themselves: the force is not a standing army, waiting for its orders in barracks in Brussels, but an ad hoc coalition of suitable components.

ECONOMIST: Europe's not-so-rapid-reaction force