1bide your timeWAITto wait until the right moment to do something 等待良机
They are stronger than us and can afford to bide their time.
他们比我们有实力,可以耐心等待时机。
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bide your time• Be patient, tolerant and bide your time.• Or wiser than we are; silent and strong, biding their time?• Where does it bide its time?• He has bided his time, and now he feels he has arrived.• Some say they're biding their time before becoming more aggressive again.• Keenan certainly bided his time before coming forward to lodge his complaints.• Bide your time, Lissa, she told herself, bide your time.• The nurse was biding her timetill another idea came to her that would put her on top again.• Investors are biding their time, trying to figure out what the next successfulstock will be.
2.[intransitiveI]WAIT old use to wait or stay somewhere, often for a long time 等待,久等;停留SYN abide
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bide• The nurse was biding her time till another idea came to her that would put her on top again.• He has bided his time, and now he feels he has arrived.• But he was biding his time.• He knows he would probably lose now and can afford to bide his time.• It was as if he was just biding his time.• Meanwhile, MissionBaybided its time.• Bide your time, Lissa, she told herself, bide your time.• Be patient, tolerant and bide your time.