Results for “待”

to await death / to be a sitting duck

wait a minute / stop a while

to wait for employment / to be unemployed

(of an expectant mother) to be in labor

suspended meal (Tw)

under investigation / currently unknown

to be about to

(coll.) to like

unresolved / awaiting solution

expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties)

pending / to be dealt with / (attributive) to-do

to-do list

needless to say / it goes without saying

to need urgently / to need doing without delay

to treat sb with due respect (idiom)

to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy / to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)

to show favoritism against sb / to treat unfairly

discount coupon / complimentary ticket

reduced-price ticket (e.g. for students)

see 刮目相看[guā mù xiāng kàn]

generous treatment

codeine (loanword)

in bud / budding

cry piteously for food

(law) national treatment – the principle that foreigners or foreign goods, services and companies are accorded the same treatment as nationals or domestic goods, services and companies within the host country

to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom) / without any practical course of action

to be lenient with others (idiom)

to treat leniently / liberal treatment

see 急不可待[jí bù kě dài]

sexual abuse

to slight (treat badly)

emergency standby / to be on standby

guesthouse / hostel

(idiom) time and tide wait for no man

most favored nation

to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction

hands tied and expecting the worst

lit. to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom) / fig. fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle

student who has returned from overseas but is yet to find a job (pun on 海帶|海带[hǎi dài]) / cf. 海歸|海归[hǎi guī]

to provide warm hospitality