What's worse, waiting day and night does not guarantee a ticket.

更糟糕的是，日夜等待并不能一定买到票。

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Beckett's play perfectly captured the trauma of waiting day after day for a listless international community to intervene in what had become a kind of surreal purgatory.

贝克特的剧本准确地捕捉了日复一日等待死水一潭的国际社会去干预一种炼狱状态的痛苦。

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The women and children spent a nerve-racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them.

四面楚歌，妇女和儿童们在等待中度过神经紧绷的一天。

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On this day, a line of 100 people waiting to turn in their cans snakes down the block.

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"When I was on the waiting list in 2000,there were 84,000 people in the U.S.waiting for solid organ transplants, and about 15 died each day waiting.

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Simply waiting a day would be tough for holiday travelers since the trains are often fully booked for days on end.

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Investors were waiting all day for a 13D filing from Carl Icahn, but not the one they got after the closing bell.

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We have a lot of folks who have been waiting all day to talk to you, so I want to get right to it.

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