kolejka 用英语:

I'm in a queue

Rob is late for the programme because there was such a long queue for coffee!

A queue is a line of people waiting for something to happen. We see queues in amusement parks, the supermarket and at the cinema when a new movie is released.

To form in a line while waiting (often followed by up). To arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc) into a queue.

Please hold the line so as not to lose your place in the queue.

At the train station, once I had figured out where the queue for tickets actually was, I began the long wait.

I didn't arrive in Harbin until very late, and the queue for taxis was already extremely long.

Japanese and British people usually wait at a bus stop in a queue.

Not long after I joined the queue, a man approached and asked if I wanted a taxi.

This implies a fun and relaxed working atmosphere where team achievement is highly valued, communication is extremely important and traditional 3-hour meetings have been replaced by informal chats in the queue for coffee.

People queued to buy Diablo 3.

I talk to everyone – even people next to me in the queue.

Look the queue is so long, I will not stand here.

This boy jumped a queue.

One of the reasons I prefer travelling by train is that there are often long queues at the airport.

They fed me a line about Monday being a holiday, so I took the day off, and it wasn't.

If you are a parent, don't allow yourself to set your heart on any particular line of work for your children.

Each episode of that TV drama ends with somebody delivering a profound line.

From the airport, the Keisei Line Sky-Liner will take you to Ueno Station in 75 minutes.

line (n)

She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

It then became necessary to settle the best route for the line to follow; and that was determined, in the first place, by the shape of the land it had to cross.

If my plane doesn't crash, and if I do not get kidnapped by organ thieves, I will drop you a line at the beginning of the week.

Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.

What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.

But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.

The campers made their own bird feeders with pinecones, peanut butter, and seeds. They hung them from trees with fishing line.

Friendly Reminder: Please keep in mind the closing time of the line you need to switch to, so as to avoid delays in your trip.

Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.

The management tended to be too concerned about short-term improvement of the bottom line to have any long-term design for the future.

How many satellites have been put into orbit round the earth?

The people crowded round the injured man, but they made way for the doctor when he reached the scene of the accident.

round face

If you wind up the doll with the key on the side of its torso it will swing its arms round and go forward doing somersaults.

Want to drop round my place? "Can I?" "My parents come home late as they both work."

Hmph, Yayoi's navigation was difficult to follow so we ended up going round and round the same places.

'Guillaume and Lebas' will that not make a good business name? We might add, 'and Co.' to round off the firm's signature.

The neighborhood has been gentrified. Now it's teeming with pretend hipsters slurping skinny lattes at Starbucks. They gather round coffee and free Wi-Fi like bees round a honeypot.

It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).

The reality is that some definitely took advantage of the euro to round up some prices and perhaps consumers were not vigilant enough.

An ancient manor, probably from the time of the templar knights, is the home to our family, and its outbuildings welcome friends and holiday guests all year round.

All that time the things granddad had said, like the sound of flies flying round a melon, buzzed in my head.

John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.

One day I had a phone call from a friend. "There's a nice little earner, won't you come round?" so I went to his house.

Lewis ' favorite hobby was his train set.

Turn left.

One good turn deserves another.

You should stay away from cults like that before you turn into a moron.

At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.

Police have failed to turn up any new evidence about the murder.

I never turn my back on a friend in need.

Turn to me for help if you are in difficulty.

I've been waiting since six o'clock and still my turn hasn't come.

No, that's not the right way. You have to turn it the other way round.

I can't turn the shower off. Could you check it for me?

The record is finished. Turn it over.

It's very unlikely that any evidence will turn up to prove Tom's guilt.

Our parents took care of us and now it's our turn to take care of them.

This catterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly.

You can't turn the heat off as long as the system is operating.