wait是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (for) 等待； (on) 侍候n. 等候， 等待时间，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he could not wait for any one's intervention, and going up to them with perfect ease and grace, said, bowing to Miss Grant, "Madame;" then to Lady Helena, with another bow, "Miss;" and to Lord Glenarvan, "Sir."
-- The Yarou-Dzangbo-Tchou will wait for you still in the mountains of Thibet.
-- I shall only be 180 leagues from Lisbon, and I shall wait there for some means of transport."
-- The only thing to be done was to wait patiently and press forward with all the speed in their power.
-- "And if you were asked to lie in wait for a llama, notwithstanding the cold and the darkness, you would do it without the least hesitation?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here on the moor we are homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions.
-- We'll sit up in my room to-night and wait until he passes.'
-- 'Wait here.
-- Wait a bit though,' he added after a pause.
-- Every day, and sometimes twice a day, I have been able but wait a moment, Dr. Watson.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wait in the next room, please; and leave your bundle here,' said the door-keeper, as he sat down comfortably in his own easy-chair in the ante-chamber.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would come out as far as Peoria Street and wait for her.
-- She would wait and brood, studying the details and adding to them until her power might be commensurate with her desire for revenge.
-- "Well, you wait a little while and see," he concluded.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.
-- I slipped the ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir.
-- I heard one man say it was nearly three o'clock, and he hoped daylight wouldn't wait more than about a week longer.
-- 'I tuck out en shin down de hill, en 'spec to steal a skift 'long de sho' som'ers 'bove de town, but dey wuz people a-stirring yit, so I hid in de ole tumble-down cooper-shop on de bank to wait for everybody to go 'way.
-- But it was too dark to see yet, so we made the canoe fast and set in her to wait for daylight.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not even wait to say good-by to you."
-- "Where did my good friends say they would wait for me?"
-- I cannot wait to kiss that dear old man, who has suffered so much for my sake."
-- If the Marionette had been told to wait a day instead of twenty minutes, the time could not have seemed longer to him.
-- How frightened was poor Pinocchio!He ran back wildly for half a mile, and at last settled himself atop a heap of stones to wait for the Serpent to go on his way and leave the road clear for him.
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