wait-a-bit

基本解釋

After the torch left our sight, we had to wait for a little bit - we weren't given the option of following the torch as it went through Lhasa.
火炬從我們視線消失的時(shí)候，我們還不能馬上走――我們不允許跟隨火炬在拉薩傳遞。
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Although we had to wait for seats at a restaurant that will never get a Michelin star and were squeezed into the 16-square-meter restaurant with another 18 diners, we didn't care one bit.
雖說(shuō)一家要讓顧客排隊(duì)的餐廳注定得不到米其林星星，雖說(shuō)我們必須和其它18個(gè)食客一起擠在一間16平米的“蝸店”里面，但這絲毫沒(méi)有讓我們介懷。
If there were an omniscient central planner, she could simply ring up the sort-of hungry guy who decides he may as well drive to get that burrito and tell him to wait a bit.
如果有一套無(wú)所不知的中央計(jì)劃系統(tǒng)，她需要做的僅僅是通知那個(gè)處于排隊(duì)中的可能打算開(kāi)車去買個(gè)玉米煎餅充饑的家伙再等一會(huì)兒。

You can't read it unless you take the course -and so I'm going to wait a little bit.
也就是說(shuō)，你只有選了這門課才能讀到,所以我會(huì)等一段時(shí)間再發(fā)。
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any of various plants having sharp hooked thorns or similar appendages, esp the greenbrier and the grapple plant