In English, there are a lot of ways to ask someone to wait.

在英語中，有很多方法可以讓別人等待。

Let's go through a bunch of them.

讓我們來看看他們。

The first one is obvious.

第一個很明顯。

You can just say, "Wait" and someone usually will respond by waiting.

你可以直接說「Wait」，通常會有人以等待的方式迴應。

But you could also say, "Wait a second." or "Wait a minute."

但你也可以說：「Wait a second」或「Wait a minute」。

And all of those would work interchangeably.

而且這些都可以互換使用。

But there's more.

但還有更多。

You could also say, "Hold on."

你也可以說：「Hold on」。

Or "Hold on a second."

或「Hold on a second」。

Or "Hold a minute."

或「Hold a minute」。

And all of those would also encourage someone to wait.

而這些也都會鼓勵別人去等待。

But there's more!

但還有更多！

You could even say, "Hang on."

你甚至可以說：「Hang on」。

Or "Hang on a second."

或「Hang on a second」。

Or "Hang on a minute."

或「Hang on a minute」。

And all of those would also encourage someone to wait.

而這些也都會鼓勵別人去等待。

Now as with a lot of things in English, in the spoken form, we use a few short forms.

和英語口語中的很多東西一樣，我們使用一些簡短的形式。

And with waiting, it's really just the word "second".

而搭配 waiting 這個字，其實也只是 second 這個字。

We sometimes in spoken English say, "sec".

我們有時用英語口語說 sec。

So you might say, "Wait a sec." or "Hold on a sec." or "Hang on a sec."

所以你可以說「Wait a sec」 或者「Hold on a sec」或者「Hang on a sec」。

And all of those would mean the same thing as, "Hold on a second." or "Wait a second."

而所有這些都和「Hold on a second」跟「Wait a second』的意思一樣。

In addition, you could also say, "Whoa!" and that usually causes someone to stop right away.

此外，你還可以說「哇！」，這通常會使人馬上停下來。

And there is also another phrase.

還有另外一句話。

You could say, "Not so fast." to ask someone to slow down.

你可以說：「別那麼快」來叫別人慢下來。

"Not so fast, Bob, you're speaking too quickly."

「別這麼快，Bob，你說話太快了。」

"Not so fast. Not so fast there."

「別那麼快。不要那麼快。」

Another one, which isn't quite as familiar as the rest is the term, "Hold your horses."

還有一個，沒有像其他的那麼令人熟悉，就是「Hold your horses」這個詞。

And "Hold your horses."means wait just like all the other ones.

而「Hold your horses」的意思是等待，跟其他用法的意思一樣。

Well, that's a number of ways to ask someone to wait in English.

以上是用英語讓別人等待的一些方法。

Bob the Canadian here.

我是加拿大人 Bob。

Learn English with Bob the Canadian.

跟加拿大人 Bob 學習英語。

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感謝你的觀看，別忘了訂閱。

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祝你有美好的一天。