英语词汇“to mark time”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	to mark time
释义	to mark time phrase If you are marking time, you are doing something that is not particularly useful or interesting while you wait for something more important or interesting to happen. He's really just marking time until he's old enough to leave. See full dictionary entry for time Examples of 'to mark time' in a sentence to mark time Like several contemporaries who survived the war with distinction, he had to mark time for several years before regaining command of a battalion. Times, Sunday Times (2006) If house prices were simply to mark time while earnings rose, this would make housing more affordable, but it would be a slow process. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Chinese translation of 'to mark time' to mark time 原地踏步 (yuándì tàbù) See mark Nearby words of to mark time to make way (for sb/sth) to manage to do sth to manage without sb/sth to mark time to marry/be educated above one's station to marvel at sth to match sth to or with sth
随便看	languishing languishingly languishment languor languorous languorously languorousness langur laniard laniaries laniary lanier laniferous lanigerous la-nina lanital la niña lank lankester lankier lankiest lankily lankiness lankly lankness

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to mark time