He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.

他拘于礼数地准备妥当，按时在门厅的入口处等候。

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It has to do with, well, with being ready, you know.

我必须这么做，要准备好，你知道的。

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I want to study with you what is involved in being ready.

我想和你们一起学习要做哪些方面的准备。

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"The target would be to have this vaccine ready for the fall flu season, so that in addition to being vaccinated for the flu, you would be able to be vaccinated for this strain.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

I am sure Nigeria is one of , and we must get ready to face those new cases being forecast by the World Health Organization. Dr.Ahmed says the most common cancers among those expected to increase are of the breast, cervix,colon,lungs and prostate.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

And like that, any realistic chance of being ready for the London Olympics was gone.

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CCS's boosters now talk of the first full-scale plant being ready by 2015 or so.

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"Realistically, I can't see my vocal cords being ready till the summer, " said Michael.

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