He told me to wait but I did not think that more stories about Jim Smiley would give me any more information about Leonidas W.Smiley, and so I started to walk away.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.

一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。

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But we're not going to wait forever,". Kelly said preparations have been made for a visit Sunday by IAEA inspectors to the partially-underground enrichment facility near the city of Qom that Iran recently acknowledged it has been secretly building.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24