Maybe they've been biding their time.

也许他们在等待时机。

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

布鲁德X蝉（一种周期蝉）若为这个机会等待了很长时间。

Now it is still alive, biding its time.

现在它尚在存活，但只是时间问题。

Then you just bide your time.

是。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!

我母亲就静待时机，直到我父亲出差开家。我当时5岁。-噢！-哎哟！

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

我听说她病了，把自己关在家里见外人。

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

当然会。拖延时间而已，我知道你会来。

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? "

“我想再待在这儿了，我要走了。你马上就走吗？”

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

赤裸裸可，管你们在哪儿都得忍受着这样无情暴风雨。

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方去了；但是在有尸骨方我是睡着觉。

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

他狡诈过人, 而且能够以原始耐心等待自己时机。

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

你知道，我只是，我只是在等待时机。

I made a bet that no one could bide it.

我打赌没有能忍受这点。

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

我会守在这四堵墙内， 而她会守在外面。

" 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，“就叫我躲开他。爸爸才受了我呢，因为我乱骂他。”

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

“你放心，我会让你失望，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，而是像伏魔本人一样一直在潜伏着，等待时机？