White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns to bring water, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.

白人、混血儿和黑人孩子们总是在那儿排队等着提水，大家在那里休息，交换玩具，争吵，打架，嬉戏。

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Two smiley babies are waiting for their lunch.

两个笑着的婴儿在等着午餐。

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The girls on the Wesleyan Academy softball team were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice.

卫斯理亚学院垒球队的女孩们在练习中等待着下一轮击球。

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"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

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They're rewarded for their waiting.

他们反而因为等待获得奖赏。

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If I looked within the skin, one of the lower layers of your skin, the connective tissue layer, you'd find many fibroblasts there and they're just waiting in a more rounded shape than this, just waiting to do their job.

如果观察皮肤,更深处的一层细胞,结缔组织层,就能看到许多成纤维细胞,它们平时形状接近圆形,时刻准备着去完成自己的任务

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They stand at the aid agency relief centre in stoical, patient silence waiting their turn with more dignity than I'm sure I could muster.

BBC: (Mis)reporting Sudan's famine

In one of the distribution centres, families are sitting in a hall along with their children, waiting for their share of aid.

BBC: Violence leaves Syrians in desperate economic straits

In this way, guildies can share their war stories while waiting for their home world to open up and let them in.

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