那天晚上,我得知你和妈妈要求被派往武汉,正在等待电话。
Later that night, I learned that you and mom had asked to be sent to Wuhan and were waiting for a call.
可是我却盯着手机破裂的屏幕,等待一个电话。
Instead, I stared at the cracked screen of my cellphone, waiting for a call.
我集中精力确保这一陈述的真实性,再次想到了他的家庭,他们正在等待一个我刚刚接到,他们却再也无法听到的电话。
I concentrated on the truth of this statement, and thought again of his family, waiting for the phone call that mine had just received, a phone call they'd never get.
当我与自己在日本的房地产经纪公司通电话时,我问当地是否有学校,她回答说现在还没有,但只要耐心等待就好。
I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said is there a school in this area.She said not now, but just wait.
我花了两周时间来解决这档子破事:向警察局报案,打电话给信用卡公司,对方让我耐心等待,杳无音信一段时间之后再找他们,还是叫我耐心等待。
I spent over two weeks cleaning the mess: filing police reports, calling the company, sitting on hold, getting disconnected and calling back to sit on hold again.
有一天我丈夫接到了一个来自地产中介的电话,他们给我带来了一个我一直企盼的消息—我们离我们已经等待了六个月的一所公寓越来越近了。
My husband got a phone call from our real estate agent and told me some of the best news I could hope for – we were closing on a house we’d been waiting for 6 months in a day.
睡到两点,醒了,心想这时上网的人该少了吧,打开电视,仍然是“请等待”,无奈又打电话,这一次我以撒切尔夫人式的肯定语气告诉前台:“是你们的设备出了问题,我是记者,我现在需要上网。”
I awoke at about 2:00 am: surely now I could use the internet, I thought. But when I turned on the TV, "Please wait" appeared yet again.
我没有力气挣脱,只好与她一起祈祷,但是,等待确实那么漫长。我们在一起在电话机旁等到太阳落山,可电话也没有响。
I had no strength left, so we prayed and waited what seemed an eternity. Together, we waited by the phone until sundown. The phone never rang.
我回到家,独自坐在房间里,等待爸妈的电话。
I came home, sat in a room alone, waiting for Mom and Dad call.
我一刻也没等待,你电话一到我就来了。
我在等待你的电话。
为什么她说别打电话,让我等待?
为什么她说别打电话,让我等待?
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