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  • 柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典

Queueing can also be used as the continuous form. 进行式亦可用queueing 。
1. N-COUNT (等候的)一列人，一队车辆 A queue is a line of people or vehicles that are waiting for something. 

  • I watched as he got a tray and joined the queue...

    我看着他拿了个托盘排起了队。

  • She waited in the bus queue...

    她排队等公共汽车。

  • There was still a queue for tickets on the night...

    晚上仍然有人在排队买票。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line
2. N-COUNT (为得到某机会而等待的)长列，长队 If you say there is a queue of people who want to do or have something, you mean that a lot of people are waiting for an opportunity to do it or have it. 

  • Manchester United would be at the front of a queue of potential buyers...

    在众多潜在的买家中，曼彻斯特联队将排在最前列。

  • Single parents got priority in the housing queue...

    单亲父母在申请住房时享有优先权。

  • The queue for places at the school has never been longer.

    排队申请上这所学校的人数达到历史最高峰。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line
3. VERB 排队(等候) When people queue, they stand in a line waiting for something. 

  • I had to queue for quite a while.

    我不得不排一会儿队。

  • ...a line of women queueing for bread.

    一列排队买面包的女人

  • Queue up means the same as queue .queue up 同queue

    • A mob of journalists are queuing up at the gate to photograph him...

      一群新闻记者在门口排起长队，等着给他拍照。

    • We all had to queue up for our ration books.

      我们都得排队领取定量配给票证薄。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line up
4. N-COUNT 队列(指等待计算机处理的任务列表) A queue is a list of computer tasks which will be done in order. 

  • Your print job has been sent to the network print queue.

    你的打印任务已经发送到了网络打印列表中。

5. VERB 使(待处理任务)成队列 To queue a number of computer tasks means to arrange them to be done in order. 
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