办公室英语口语第103期:Waiting on a client 等待客户

Waiting on a client¹
A: Alex! What are you guys doing over there?
B: What do you mean, Janice?
A: I’ve been waiting for a response on the Blake Building design for nearly two weeks.
B: I’m sorry, Janice. But we’ve been waiting on the client. It’s out of our hands at the moment.

等待客户
A：亚历克斯！你们这帮人都在干嘛呢？
B：你是什么意思，珍妮丝？
A：我一直在等着对布莱克大楼设计的回复，等了快两个星期了。
B：对不起，珍妮丝。可我们在等着客户呢。此时此刻我们无能为力呀。
 

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n.委托人，当事人，顾客

参考例句：

• She can't come to the telephone;she's serving a client.她不能来接电话，她正在接待一位顾客。
• The lawyer produced a clever defence of his client.律师机智地为委托人辩护。