waiting room

英 [ˈweɪtɪŋ ruːm]

美 [ˈweɪtɪŋ ruːm]

n.  等候室; 候车室; 候诊室

医学

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牛津词典

noun

• 等候室；候车室；候诊室
  a room where people can sit while they are waiting, for example for a bus or train, or to see a doctor or dentist

柯林斯词典

• 等候室;候车室;候诊室
  Awaiting roomis a room in a place such as a railway station or a clinic, where people can sit down while they wait.

英英释义

noun

• a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait
  Synonym:loungewaiting area

双语例句

• I kept trying to write my paper in the waiting room, but it was too hard.
  我试着在等候室里写作文，但我办不到。
• I spent a whole hour kicking my heels in the waiting room before I was shown into his office.
  我在等候室里足足坐了一个钟头冷板凳，才有人带我到他的办公室里。
• While her mother and two brothers sat in the waiting room.
  当时她母亲和两个兄弟就在候诊室里。
• As I sat in the cage of the dentist's waiting room, I watched two other patients arrive.
  当我坐在牙医诊所等候室这个笼子里，我看到另外两位患者来到这里。
• He met your parents in the waiting room.
  他在等候室见了你的父母。
• Well, your father is in the waiting room& you can go home with him now.
  好啦，你父亲在等候室&你现在可以跟他回去了。
• Again I had to wait in the waiting room.
  又一次在候诊室等待；
• I was triage nurse that day and had just been out to the waiting room to clean up.
  我在那天是当班的分诊护士，刚去了一下候诊室做清理工人。
• I spent the day in the waiting room polishing a manuscript whose only significance was its power to distract.
  我在候诊室里花了一整天来校订我那篇手稿，它惟一重要的作用就是分散我焦急的心情。
• You were not looking at the door to the waiting room the entire time, were you?
  你没有在全过程中一直看着那扇等候室的门，是不是？