spokenWAIT used to say that someone should be patient because they will find out about something later 等等看〔用于叫某人耐心等待事情的结果〕
‘What’s for dinner?’ ‘Wait and see.’
“晚餐吃什么?”“等一下就知道了。”
We will just have to wait and see how things develop.
我们只能耐心等着看事情怎样发展。
Examples from the Corpus
wait and see• I promise you, you just wait and see.• I would simply have to wait and see.• The best attitude to have towards money matters in 1993 is: wait and see.• Until recently, all she and her family could do was wait and see.• You said you were going to wait and see.• Staff at OxfordRegionalhealthAuthority will now have to wait and see how many of them are to keep their jobs.• They therefore had decided to wait and see how the operationsprogressed before attempting to formulatesubsequent war strategy.• He decided to wait and see what happened in the other rehearsals.