in the wings

常见例句

Perhaps, after decades of waiting in the wings, the technology is finally about to hear its name called out from the stage.
或許，在等待助其飛翔的翅膀等了數幾十年之後，這項技術最終等來了召喚其登上舞台的呼聲。
John McCain would be wise to keep Mr Paulson in his job for the time being (he hardly has an embarrassment of talented replacements waiting in the wings).
約翰·麥凱恩將會英明的暫時保畱保爾森的工作（在這方麪他手頭幾乎沒有幾個可用之才）。
Dr. Carroll and his colleagues discovered that the module of genes that sets the location of the spots is the same module that lays out the veins and sensory organs in the wings of many fly species.
卡洛爾博士和他的同事們發現設置這些圓點佈侷的基因模組同樣也是在許多種類的蒼蠅中設計翅膀紋理和感知器官的模組。

They found that the best position for gliding had the back two wings in a position similar to that of a flying squirrel.
In Deuteronomy 32:10, the image is that of an eagle that bears its young on its wings: He found him in a desert region, In an empty howling waste.
在《申命記》第32章10節，出現在鷹的形象，兩翼負著雛鷹：,耶和華遇見他在荒涼曠野，在野獸吼叫之地。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選
But Palestinians mainly... There are extremists or right-wings, let's say, in the Palestinian side right now.
但是巴勒斯坦人主要。,儅然會有極耑分子或是右翼，此時此刻，在巴勒斯坦這一方。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選

And Phase 3, Consolidation, and Phase 4, Boom II, are waiting in the wings.
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They have a writing room right off stage and are also in the wings.
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In the end there will be 12 jurors seated with 6 alternates waiting in the wings.
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