bide
verb [intransitive] (old use)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they bide | |
| he / she / it bides | |
| past simple bided | |
| past participle bided | |
| -ing form biding |
- (also abide)
to stay or live in a place 逗留；停留；居留；居住 Oxford Collocations DictionaryBide is used with these nouns as the object:- time
Word OriginOld English bīdan, of Germanic origin.
Idioms
bide your time
to wait for the right time to do something 等待时机 He decided to bide his time until he got an opportunity to talk to her alone. 他决定等待时机，直到有机会单独和她谈谈。