Yes,it was a buy off. The employee put us at the top of the list for a table instead of making us wait like everyone else.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

and... sometimes, you know, beggars will wait at the stoplight and hold the sign

然后……有时，你可能也遇到过，乞讨的人会等在红灯旁，举着一个牌子，

不做善事的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I would be grateful if you would wait until that point if at all you possibly can. It just makes the whole thing work a little easier and it prevents that drop in the pit of my stomach when I see half of the class leave.

我将感激不尽,这样会好一点,以免我看到半数人走掉时,心情会受到影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Major Anderson and his men at Sumter, he said,could not wait that long.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And in particular, I'm sure you're looking at this going-- will look at it if we look at the right piece-- going, wait a minute.

尤其是，我相信你已经,注意到这一点了,等等，看这儿。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He explained he was going to wait for them at the hotel.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

They're not responsible necessarily for moving molecules inside and out, but they sit at the outside of the cell and they wait for signals.

它们不负责将分子运进运出,而是冲着细胞外面坐等信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

(No Transcripts) But as Bevis keeps at it, (Wait for seconds) his grandsons Payton,6,and Quintin,2 scoot a little closer, to make sure they don't miss a word.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

D-A-V-I-D Well, if I've got a five-letter word like D-A-V-I-D, well, that's like five bytes and yet we only have the ability thus far in this class to return one thing at a time I can't return five bytes to you, but wait a minute, those bytes by nature of a computer are just stored in RAM.

好的，如果有5个字母的单词，如，那是5个字节,我们只能返回一个东西,而不能返回5个字节，等一下，这些字节被计算机本能地,存储在内存中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

(No Transcripts,wait...) At the Johannesburg summit, Swan pledged to focus his efforts on protecting Antarctica from mineral or oil exploitation when treaty obligations are renewed in 2041.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

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。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Racist laws required African Americans to drink from separate public drinking fountains, climb back stairs to sit in the balconies of theaters, and wait in much smaller rooms at bus and train stations.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04