wait around

基本解释

Unlike nucleases, recombinases cut a double-stranded piece of DNA and then wait around on the exposed ends.
重组酶与核酸酶不同，它剪断基因的双链，然后在断点的周围等候。
Currently SOAP clients, in one form or another, wait around for a response message to be delivered back to the client (either through a new socket or on the HTTP response flow).
目前，SOAP 客户机会通过某种形式等待响应消息传回给自己（通过新的套接字或者 HTTP 响应流）。
If no message exists, the operation does not wait around for one; it simply prepares another Refresh Response with a new refresh interval period and returns that back to the caller.
如果符合条件的消息不存在，操作并不会等待消息的出现。它只是简单地用一个新的刷新间隔周期来组装一个刷新响应并将它返回给调用者。

He would wait in orbit around the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed and explored the surface.
If you knew your way around in the funhouse like your own bedroom, you could wait until a girl came along and then slip away without ever getting caught, even if her boyfriend was right with her.
如果你在开心馆中跟自己在寝室里一样熟悉门道，你可以等一个姑娘前来，事后溜之大吉,绝不会被人抓住，即使她男朋友就在旁边。
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The rest of the men built a campfire outside and gathered around it to wait.

Sure, I could wait around for a guy to buy it for me.
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If you wait around, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.