wait-a-bit
稍等片刻
Definitions
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- : any of various plants bearing thorns or prickly appendages, as the grapple plant or the greenbrier.
Examples
In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.
So far, all the players seemed to be willing to wait their turn.
And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.
ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
And as he adjusted to this change in circumstances, he screamed at himself a second time: Wait!
As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.
Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
He didn't need to wait—as the birds did—until an angleworm stuck his head above ground.
The pig family did not know when Squinty would be taken away from them, and all they could do was to wait.
After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.