waiting game

noun

1. 伺机而动的策略
   a policy of waiting to see how a situation develops before you decide how to act

1. N-COUNT 拖延战术
   If you play a waiting game, you deal with a situation by deliberately doing nothing, because you believe you will gain an advantage by acting later, or because you are waiting to see how other people are going to act.
   1. He's playing a waiting-game. He'll hope to hang on as long as possible until the pressure is off.
      他玩的是拖延战术。他希望尽可能地拖，直到压力消除为止。

1. I was in my favorite watering hole, waiting for the game to start.
   我在我最喜欢的酒吧里，等着观看比赛。
2. They've both asked her to go out with them, but Vera is playing a waiting game until she finds out which one of her suitors has the most money!
   他们都请维拉同他们一起外出，但是维拉却在等待，等她发现哪一个求婚者的钱最多！
3. Servers play the waiting game, just waiting for an incoming connection.
   服务器玩的就是等待游戏，只需要等待客户机连接到达即可。
4. 3: All the waiting is over-it's zero hour for the game we're all waiting for, the players are out on the court and the referee is ready to throw the ball up and start the game.
   他说：一切等待终于结束。我们盼到了久久等候的这场关键性的比赛。球员们都已经在场上，裁判正要抛起球来准备开场。
5. Sitting in the bleachers at a soccer game, or waiting for a game to come on, or puttering around the house, they're somewhat bored, and willing to do something that seems semi-productive.
   坐在看台上，等待足球赛开始，或者在屋子里闲逛，人们有时候会感到无聊，就想做点有意义的事情。
6. 'While we're waiting, let's have a game of cards,' said the fat one. '
   我们一边等着一边玩牌吧。那个胖子说。
7. No, gentlemen, you have had plenty of sleep, but I have been up these two nights, said the doctor, and he sat gloomily by his wife's side, waiting for the end of the game.
   不，先生们，你们已经睡过觉了，而我可两夜未合眼。医生说着，闷闷不乐地在妻子旁边坐下，等着玩牌游戏结束。
8. 'We'll play a waiting game, and let Michael make the first move,'I said.
   我们要玩一场等待游戏，让迈克尔先动手。我说。
9. Mr. Hague said the standoff could amount to a waiting game of months or even years.
   黑格说，目前的僵持局面可能意味着双方会打一场持续数月甚至数年的拖延战。
10. Until newer, better technology is adopted across the board in the airline industry, finding out what exactly went wrong in situations such as these is likely to remain a waiting game.
    而除非整个航空业采用更新更好的技术，否则，在类似情况下要想查明问题所在，人们依然要等下去。
11. The first player who succeeds in bringing his6 pirates to the end of the passage and aboard a waiting sloop wins the game.
    玩家努力将自己的海盗送到地道尽头的小船上，最先将6名海盗送到小船者胜。
12. Some of you may be playing a waiting game for another month, while others may find themselves in labor very soon.
    你们中的一些可以要玩再等一个月的游戏，而其他一些人可能发现他们不久就将分娩。
13. Until recently China seemed to be playing an intelligent waiting game – relying on its growing economic strength to draw its neighbours inexorably into a Chinese sphere of influence.
    直到最近为止，中国似乎一直采取一种明智的等待策略&倚仗不断增长的经济实力，令各邻国无法抗拒，自动进入自己的势力范围。
14. We've been waiting to play a super hero game this good all our lives.
    我们一直在等待扮演超级英雄游戏很好的我们的生活。
15. Now Damon and wife Michelle are playing the waiting game for the couple's first child, due in mid-January.
    现在戴蒙跟老婆蜜雪儿正等待著他们的第一个小宝贝，预产期是一月中。
16. One advantage is that she can play a waiting game.
    她还有一张王牌就是她可以伺机下手，枕戈待旦。
17. Having established footholds in the market, foreign banks are playing a waiting game, hoping that regulations ease and give them a fair shot at the growing market.
    在市场上站稳脚跟后，外资银行正伺机而动，期待监管者放松监管，在这个日益增长的市场上给它们提供一个平等的机会。
18. As China's PDA makers battle for market share, cautious global giants play a waiting game.
    谨慎的全球巨头等待时机，为在中国掌上电脑市场中占上份额。
19. The waiting game: phil Hughes has some time on his hands, awaiting a New York examination on the strained left hamstring that ended his bid at a no-hitter on Tuesday in texas.
    等啊等：上周二在德州因为左腿筋拉伤而跟无安打比赛失之交臂的休斯，在等待前往纽约验伤的这段期间正得发慌。
20. Effects of Male Obesity on the Physiological and Metabolic Reaction in Acute Endurance Exercise of Differing Intensity; Which can play a waiting game better, men or women?
    肥胖对青年男性在不同强度耐力运动中生理代谢反应的影响不知道是男的还是女的毅力大（有耐力）？
21. His brother knew how to play a waiting game.
    他兄弟懂得如何待机而动。
22. The waiting game continues and we are exerting more pressure than ever on the dark Ones, to withdraw from the impossible situation they are in.
    等待的游戏在继续，我们很高兴看到在黑暗者的头上有比以往更大的压力，他们正被迫从难以忍受的处境中撤退。
23. This effectively makes the whole rescue effort a very inefficient waiting game.
    这也就让整个救援人质的努力变成了消极的守株待兔。
24. Dentist: There are so many people in the waiting room right now and I don't want to miss the4 o'clock ball game.
    医生：等得人太多了，我不想错过四点钟的球赛。
25. Motorcyclists with leather gauntlets are waiting for the start of the game.
    戴着皮护手套的摩托车手们正在等待比赛开始。
26. Mr Smith has to justify a "waiting game" to his more impetuous followers.
    史密斯先生不得不向其较为冲动的追随者证明观望政策是正确的。
27. The Wolf is very sick; it will be all the holes after touring and export all block, then hides in the waiting game.
    狼十分懊丧，它将洞内所有的出口巡视一番后又全部堵住，然后又躲在洞口等待猎物。
28. The waiting game has gone on long enough.
    已经等待得够久，该采取行动了。
29. If technological competition is mainly R& D effort-consuming, the game of quality competition changes its nature form preemption to a waiting game with second-mover advantage when long product life span.
    当产品生命周期较长时，如果技术竞争主要基于研发投入，质量竞争从占先竞争转变为具有跟随者优势的等待竞争。
30. It shows that the boundary of firm lies in the equilibrium between the time value of waiting and the strategic value of initiative game.
    结果表明，企业价值边界确定在企业等待的期权价值与抢先的战略价值相均衡之处。

noun

1. a strategy of delay