英语词组wait on him是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

wait on (someone or something)

1. To serve a customer or patron. Is anyone waiting on table one?

2. To be awaiting someone or something in particular, and thus unable to proceed. I'm waiting on Carrie's response, so I don't have an answer to your question yet.

3. To visit someone in a formal show of respect. We must wait on the prince during his birthday festivities.

wait (up)on someone

Fig. to pay homage to someone. (Stilted.) Do you expect me to wait upon you like a member of some medieval court? She waited on her grown children as if they were gods and goddesses.

wait on

1. Also, wait upon. Serve, minister to, especially for personal needs or in a store or restaurant. For example, Guests at the Inn should not expect to be waited on-they can make their own beds and get their own breakfast . [Early 1500s]

2. Make a formal call on, as in They waited on the ambassador. [c. 1500]

3. Also, wait upon. Await, remain in readiness for, as in We're waiting on their decision to close the school. This usage, a synonym of wait for, dates from the late 1600s but in the mid-1800s began to be criticized by many authorities. However, by the late 1900s it had come into increasingly wider use and is again largely accepted.

wait on

or wait upon

1. To serve the needs of someone or something; be in attendance on someone or something: The clerk waited on a customer.

2. To await someone or something: They're waiting on my decision.

3. To make a formal call on someone; visit someone: We waited on the mourning widow to pay our respects.

词组	wait on him
释义	(redirected from wait on him) wait on (someone or something) 1. To serve a customer or patron. Is anyone waiting on table one? 2. To be awaiting someone or something in particular, and thus unable to proceed. I'm waiting on Carrie's response, so I don't have an answer to your question yet. 3. To visit someone in a formal show of respect. We must wait on the prince during his birthday festivities. wait (up)on someone Fig. to pay homage to someone. (Stilted.) Do you expect me to wait upon you like a member of some medieval court? She waited on her grown children as if they were gods and goddesses. wait on 1. Also, wait upon. Serve, minister to, especially for personal needs or in a store or restaurant. For example, Guests at the Inn should not expect to be waited on-they can make their own beds and get their own breakfast . [Early 1500s] 2. Make a formal call on, as in They waited on the ambassador. [c. 1500] 3. Also, wait upon. Await, remain in readiness for, as in We're waiting on their decision to close the school. This usage, a synonym of wait for, dates from the late 1600s but in the mid-1800s began to be criticized by many authorities. However, by the late 1900s it had come into increasingly wider use and is again largely accepted. wait on or wait upon v. 1. To serve the needs of someone or something; be in attendance on someone or something: The clerk waited on a customer. 2. To await someone or something: They're waiting on my decision. 3. To make a formal call on someone; visit someone: We waited on the mourning widow to pay our respects.
随便看	dodging dodging the column dodgy dodgy deal do dirt do dirty do dirty work dodja dodo dodoes do dope do double duty do (double) duty do (double) duty as do double duty as do double duty as something do (double) duty as (something) do double duty for do double duty for something do down put someone through their paces put (someone) through the mangle put someone through the mangle put someone through the mill put someone through the ringer