wait upon

基本解釋

But we may not have time to wait upon funerals.
但在危機面前，我們也許并沒有時間等待。
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
因為作惡的，必被剪除。惟有等候耶和華的，必承受地土。
Every moralist whose morality consists of 'don'ts', every timid man who 'lets I dare not wait upon I would', every tyrant who compels his subjects to live in fear, becomes in time a part of Satan.
每一個用一大堆“不可以”來構(gòu)建自己的道德的道德家，每一個說“讓我敢想做什么就做什么吧”的懦弱的人，每一個使其臣民生活在恐懼之中的暴君，都不時地成為撒旦的一部分。

The United States can no longer wait upon a multilateral consensus to take such steps.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
Serious bargaining on this was always going to wait upon Germany's election.
ECONOMIST: European Union
It must lead the country, which means not only being ahead of the country but also having the patience and perspicacity to wait upon the country to follow it—all in good time.
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