wait for a minute

基本解释

Wait for a minute, twenty yuan totally.
请稍等。一共需要二十块钱。
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He will he back soon. Could you wait for a minute?
王先生上楼去了。请在这里等一会儿。
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Mr. Wang has gone upstairs. Just wait for a minute here.
王先生上楼去了。请在这里等一会儿。
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If I look for, say, minus 1, you might go, gee, wait a minute, if I was just doing linear search, I would've known right away that minus one wasn't in this list, because it's sorted and it's smaller than the first elements.
如果我要查找-1，你可能要怒了，呵呵，等一等，如果我用的是线性查找，我不会知道-1不在这个列表中,但是列表是排好序的,1又比第一个元素小。
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They will try to offer a huge selection, high quality and just a 30-minute wait for home delivery of prepared meals, fine wines, nonprescription drugs and even cigars.
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