“按兵不动”用英语怎么说？
英语短语“按兵不动”用英语怎么说？
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bide one's time：静待时机，按兵不动bide的原意是“停留、持续”，bide one's time表示“不着急、按兵不动，静待机会来临再出击”。
Lesser souls might have languished indefinitely in the deputy ministerial sinecure thatGorbachev tossed Yeltsins way as a consolation prize. But Yeltsin nursed himself back to bothpolitical and physical health and bided his time.(出自：TIME，Sept. 2,1991,p. 54)
戈尔巴乔夫让叶尔钦当个没有实权的副部长，聊表补偿。比较平凡的人可能就一生消磨于斯，叶尔钦则借此机会疗养身体并恢复政治实力，同时静待时机转变。
