bide one's time
静待时机
讲解:
bide的原意是“停留、持续”,和abide的意思很接近。abide除了“停留”,还可解释为“居住”。abide衍生出来的 abode,意思就是“住所”bide one's time表示“不着急、按兵不动,静待机会来临再出击”。
例句:
Lesser souls might have languished indefinitely in the deputy ministerial sinecure that Gorbachev tossed Yeltsins way as a consolation prize. But Yeltsin nursed himself back to both political and physical health and bided his time.(出自:TIME,Sept. 2,1991,p. 54)
戈尔巴乔夫让叶尔钦当个没有实权的副部长,聊表补偿。比较平凡的人可能就一生消磨于斯,叶尔钦则借此机会疗养身体并恢复政治实力,同时静待时机转变。
adj. 代理的,副的
n. 代表,副手