1·Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.
高昂的医疗费用、急诊室里漫长的等待，以及找不到初级护理医师，这些都只是患者每天面临的问题的冰山一角。
2·When a process waits for a block device data request to complete, it incurs I/O wait time, and all idle time becomes wait time.
当一个过程等待一个块设备数据请求完成时，它会增加 I/O 等待时间，而所有空闲都会变成等待时间。
3·A girl quickly punches a number into her phone and waits until she hears the other line pick up.
一个女孩迅速的用她的电话拨打了一串号码然后等待，直到她听到电话那头的话筒被拿起。
4·This male penguin waits instinctively; not really knowing why, other than instinct tells him to do it.
公企鹅本能地等待，他自己也不确知为何这么作，只是本能叫他这么作。
5·This function takes the handle to the mutex object and waits until it is signaled or timeout occurs.
这个函数会使用一个互斥对象的句柄，并一直等待，直到它变为有信号状态或超时为止。