wait-a-bit

基本解释

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.
火炬从我们视线消失的时候，我们还不能马上走――我们不允许跟随火炬在拉萨传递。
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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.
虽说一家要让顾客排队的餐厅注定得不到米其林星星，虽说我们必须和其它18个食客一起挤在一间16平米的“蜗店”里面，但这丝毫没有让我们介怀。
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.
如果有一套无所不知的中央计划系统，她需要做的仅仅是通知那个处于排队中的可能打算开车去买个玉米煎饼充饥的家伙再等一会儿。

You can't read it unless you take the course -and so I'm going to wait a little bit.
也就是说，你只有选了这门课才能读到,所以我会等一段时间再发。
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