The boss pondered for a long time and decided to wait for the highest bid.

老板思考半天， 决定待价而沽。

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If the program must wait for a resource, such as an I/O completion, specify a maximum wait time, and then fail or requeue the task for execution at a later time.

如果程序必须等待诸如 I/O 完成这样的某个资源，那么请指定最长的等待时间，以及随后是失效还是将任务重新排队以便稍后执行。

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The maximum time the method will wait for a connection in this situation is specified by the connection pool's connection timeout property.

对于这种情况，该方法等待连接的最大等待时间是由连接池的连接超时属性指定的。

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"Given what we know about production downtime, in 2011 we see 328, 000 US customers of the affected brands are up for grabs, and more if the time to wait for a particular brand begins to extend, " says AT Kearney's Dan Cheng.

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The wait time for a kidney in western Europe is also three years, notes the Council of Europe, but it is expected to rise to ten years by 2010.

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He warned that the country could not afford to wait years for new development at a time when the economy was struggling - but the move has been criticised by conservation groups.

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