柯林斯英汉双解大词典
await /əˈweɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( awaiting, awaited, awaits )
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V-T If you await someone or something, you wait for them. 等候 [正式]
例：Very little was said as we awaited the arrival of the chairman.
我们在等候主席的到来时几乎没说什么话。
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V-T Something that awaits you is going to happen or come to you in the future. 将发生在…身上 [正式]
例：A surprise awaited them in Wal-Mart.
一件意想不到的事情正在沃尔玛里等待着他们。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Residents are anxiously awaiting a decision.
居民焦虑地期待决定。
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The plane circled, awaiting permission to land.
飞机盘旋着，等待着陆指令。
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He is in custody awaiting trial.
他已被拘留候审。
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Researchers are awaiting approval of additional money from Congress so that two deeper laboratories can be built.
VOA: special.2009.07.21
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The people in Paris are awaiting some sort of military help from the provinces, but it simply goes on and on.
巴黎民众翘首企盼,希望别的省份出兵相助,然而围困的僵局还是丝毫没有打破的迹象
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I did not abandon my interest in politics to discover how it might be bettered in other respects, and I was perpetually awaiting my opportunity.
我并未放弃对政治的兴趣,仍想探索,如何能更有效地管治，我也一直都在等待我的机会。
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