We're mighty limber when a hard wind's blowing, because we know it pays to be limber. When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile and we bide our time.

刮大风的时候，我们是柔和顺从的，因为我们知道这样最有利，遇到困难，我们向无法回避的事情低头，而不需要大吵大闹，我们微笑，我们干活，这样来等待时机。

Napoleon offered a truce to Alexander I, but the Russian czar knew he could bide his time: " We shall let the Russian winter fight the war for us."

拿破仑向亚历山大一世提出停战，但沙皇深知他可以等待时机：“且让俄罗斯的严冬为我们战斗吧。”

O, let me suffer, being at your beck, The imprison'd absence of your liberty; And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check, Without accusing you of injury.

啊，就让我遵命自囿于孤独的牢狱吧，你既然肆意逍遥，二意三心。让我默然忍受你的斥，绝不对你的伤害抱有微词。

But, instead, at a biding memory, was one family in the stadium, were literally wailing in the stress of such a cruel defeat.

然而，引人注目的是体育场一个家庭，他们为这样的惨失痛哭。

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。

But it survives in this expression 'to bide someone's time'.

但在这个表达“bide someone's time”中保存了下来。

These will be taken as final and biding.

这些证明书将是最后的依据并具有约束力。

So, Neil, I know that you want to go for a year and travel around the world, but you've got to bide your time and wait for the kids to be a bit older.

所以，尼尔，我知道你想花一年的时间环游世界，但是你必须等待时机，等孩子们再长大一点。

Now it is still alive, biding its time.

现在它尚在存活，但只是时间问题。

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

当然不会。拖延时间而已，我知道你会来。

" Well, I told him to beware, " said my companion; " and he must bide the consequences of neglecting my warning! Hasn't he been thick with Mr Heathcliff, lately? "

“唉，我告诉过他要小心，”我的同伴说，“他忽视了我的警告，就一定更遭到这后果！他最近跟希刺克厉夫先生不是还挺亲密的吗？”

Defense and corporate lawyers said meetings with potential witnesses in pending investigations have been canceled, and some companies seeking to raise cash through a stock offering are having to bide their time.

辩护律师和公司律师说，他们已经取消了与调查中可能的证人的会面，所以，部分寻求通过发行股票筹集现金的公司还得继续等待时机。

Had he made contact with the Death Eaters, perhaps? Pretended that he had never really gone over to Dumbledore, that he had been, like Voldemort himself, biding his time?

他大概与食死徒们联系上了吧？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在潜伏着，等待时机？

" I don't know. I was tired, but she made me bide and keep up the fire just the same, while she kept going up across Rainbarrow way."

“我不知道。我累坏了，但她不让我走，逼着我看好篝火，不许熄灭，而她自己却老往雨冢方向跑。”

It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.

我真要急得发疯，所幸我生性倔强，所以还能耐心忍受，等候时机。

You had to bide your time, wait for the right moment to strike, and crucially be within striking range of your adversary.

你必须等待时机，等待合适的攻击之时，关键是要在对手的攻击范围内。

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，在很长时间里作为小型哺乳动物存在，等待合适时机的到来。

The adult seals will mate soon after the female gives birth. So the males wait near by, biding their time.

成年海豹会在母海豹分娩后不久就再次进行交配。所以公海豹们就在附近徘徊等待着时机。

She is too pooped. I will wait. I will bide my time. I will give her a chance to recover.

她太累了。我要等等再说。我要静候良机。我要给她一段恢复的时间。

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。