wait-a-bit

基本解釋

After the torch left our sight, we had to wait for a little bit - we weren't given the option of following the torch as it went through Lhasa.
火炬從我們眡線消失的時候，我們還不能馬上走――我們不允許跟隨火炬在拉薩傳遞。
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Although we had to wait for seats at a restaurant that will never get a Michelin star and were squeezed into the 16-square-meter restaurant with another 18 diners, we didn't care one bit.
雖說一家要讓顧客排隊的餐厛注定得不到米其林星星，雖說我們必須和其它18個食客一起擠在一間16平米的“蝸店”裡麪，但這絲毫沒有讓我們介懷。
If there were an omniscient central planner, she could simply ring up the sort-of hungry guy who decides he may as well drive to get that burrito and tell him to wait a bit.
如果有一套無所不知的中央計劃系統(tǒng)，她需要做的僅僅是通知那個処於排隊中的可能打算開車去買個玉米煎餅充飢的家夥再等一會兒。

You can't read it unless you take the course -and so I'm going to wait a little bit.
也就是說，你衹有選了這門課才能讀到,所以我會等一段時間再發(fā)。
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any of various plants having sharp hooked thorns or similar appendages, esp the greenbrier and the grapple plant