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1、Hold your horses.
等等。
【例句一】
A: Come on, we're gonna be late.
快點(diǎn),我們要晚了。
B: Hold your horses. We still have 20 minutes.
等等,我們還有20分鐘呢。
【例句二】
Hold your horses will you? I'm coming as fast as I can.
等等我嘛,我正以最快的速度趕來(lái)。
2、Hold up
等一下
【例句一】
Hold up! Stop walking so fast. I can't keep up.
等一下,別走那么快。我都跟不上了。
【例句二】
Hey guys, hold up. Melvin's tying his shoes/shoelaces.
嘿,大家等一下,Melvin在系他的鞋帶呢。
3、Keep your pants on
等一下,有耐心點(diǎn)
【例句】
A: I can't wait any longer. I'm gonna go crazy.
我等不了了,我要發(fā)瘋了。
B: Keep your pants on. We just have two more days before we go on vacation.
再等一等,我們還有兩天就去度假了。
4、Wait a moment.
稍等一下
也可以說(shuō):
Wait a minute/second.
Wait a sec. 或 Just a sec.
【例句】
Wait a second. I'll be right back. I forgot to grab my phone.
等一下,我馬上就回來(lái)。忘拿電話了。
5、Wait up
等一等
【例句一】
Let's go already. Wait up. Frankie will be here in 10 minutes.
我們走吧。等一等,10分鐘就來(lái)。
【例句二】
Wait up. I'm not ready. I still need to brush my teeth.
等一等,我還沒(méi)準(zhǔn)備好呢,我得刷刷牙。
6、Take it easy
別著急,等一等
【例句】
Take it easy. The movie doesn't start until 7. We have plenty of time to spare.
等一等,電影7點(diǎn)才開(kāi)始呢,我們有很多時(shí)間呢。
7、What's the rush?
急什么呀?
也可以說(shuō):
what's your hurry?
【例句一】
A: We need to be there now.
我們現(xiàn)在就得過(guò)去。
B: What's the rush? The girls aren't even there yet.
急什么呀?女生們還沒(méi)到呢。
【例句二】
A: I can't stay. I gotta go.
我不能待了,我得走了。
B: What's your hurry? Sit down and have a drink.
急什么呀?坐下來(lái)再喝一杯嘛。
8、Slow down
慢一點(diǎn)
【例句】
Can you slow down? Our lunch break is an hour and it's only been 20 minutes.
能不能慢一點(diǎn)啊?我們午休時(shí)間是1個(gè)小時(shí),才過(guò)了20分鐘呢。