Maybe they've been biding their time.

也许他们等待时机。

The nymphs of the periodical cicada have been biding their time.

布鲁德X蝉（一种周期蝉）的若虫为这个机会等待了很长时间。

Now it is still alive, biding its time.

它尚存活，但只是时间问题。

Then you just bide your time.

是的。那你就等待时机。

He would bide his time stealthily.

他会马上就动手，他会暗中等待一个适宜时机。

So mother just bided her time until he finally left town on business. I was 5. -Wow! -Ouch!

母亲就静待时机，直到父亲出差开家。当时5岁。-噢！-哎哟！

Her health is suffering from it, I hear, for she will bide entirely indoors.

听说她病了，把自己关家里见外人。

Course I wasn't. Biding my time. Knew you'd turn up.

当然会。拖延时间而已，知道你会来。

So he guards her, biding his time with a good supply of bamboo.

所以他守卫着她，靠吃大量竹子打发时间。

" I like going on better than biding still. Will you soon start again? "

“想再待这儿了，要走了。你马上就走吗？”

Poor naked wretches, where so'er you are, that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm.

赤裸裸的可怜虫，管你们哪儿都得忍受着这样无情的暴风雨。

They have carried 'em off to men's houses; but I shouldn't like to sleep where they will bide.

他们把它们拿到人家住的地方去了；但是有尸骨的地方是睡着觉的。

He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.

他狡诈过人, 而且能够以原始的耐心等待自己的时机。

You know, I just, I just kind of bided my time.

你知道，只是，只是等待时机。

I made a bet that no one could bide it.

打赌没有能忍受这点。

I'll bide inside these four walls, and she'll bide out.

会守这四堵墙内， 而她会守外面。

" Naught, " said he, " but to keep out of his gait. Daddy cannot bide me, because I swear at him."

“没教什么，”他说，“就叫躲开他。爸爸才受了呢，因为乱骂他。”

" And you may be sure I won't disappoint ye by biding away, Mr. Wildeve."

“你放心，会让你失望的，到时候一定来，韦狄先生。”

A very few, however, evolved into small, furry, burrowing beings that bided their time for a very long while as little mammals.

然而，少量进化成了毛茸茸的穴居小动物，很长时间里作为小型哺乳动物存，等待合适时机的到来。

Pretended that he had never really gone over to Dumbledore, that he had been, like Voldemort himself, biding his time?

假装自己从来没有真正投靠过邓布利多，而是像伏地魔本人一样一直潜伏着，等待时机？