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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I would be waiting every day with bated breath wondering when the ax was going to fall.

我每天都屏息等待，不知道什么时候斧子会掉下来。

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One day, while I was waiting for my father, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance.

一天，当我在等爸爸的时候，我看见一个大约两岁的小男孩在草地上自由地奔跑，他妈妈就在不远处看着。

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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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Yet like hundreds of families who might never know what became of their relatives who died during the storm and its aftermath, he and the rest of the Green family are waiting for the day they will be able to bury Joyce and Shenae.

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The networks make their final decision in mid-May, sometimes waiting until the day before their advertising presentation to make up their minds.

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Millions of UK web surfers, meanwhile, are kept waiting for the day when free internet access is truly free.

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