wait in the wings
基本解释
- 準備好了
英汉例句
- Perhaps, after decades of waiting in the wings, the technology is finally about to hear its name called out from the stage.
或許,在等待助其飛翔的翅膀等了數幾十年之後,這項技術最終等來了召喚其登上舞台的呼聲。 - If you know your partner has someone waiting in the wings, it’s hard to be motivated to work on your relationship, or to be enthusiastic about it.
如果你知道你的另一半有別的人在翹首以待,確實是很難讓你經營這段感情或是對它抱有熱情。 - The Turkish army is waiting in the wings while the other armies fight the initial battles.
其他軍隊都派到了戰場第一線,而土耳其軍隊正在耐心的等待時機的來臨。
iask.sina.com.cn - And Phase 3, Consolidation, and Phase 4, Boom II, are waiting in the wings.
FORBES: A Season For Surprises - In the end there will be 12 jurors seated with 6 alternates waiting in the wings.
FORBES: Rajaratnam Trial Begins -- The Judge, The Jury and Early Defense Win - All the wordage about succession and fully vetted jockeys waiting in the wings misses the point.
FORBES
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- If someone or something is waiting in the wings, they are not yet active or important, but are ready or likely to be so soon.