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He was surrounded by reporters who had been lying in wait for him.
Someone was waiting in the shadowy doorway.

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Open the tool →守候 (shǒu hòu) means “to wait for; to keep watch over”.
守候 is pronounced shǒu hòu in Mandarin Chinese.
“To wait for; to keep watch over.” is 守候 (shǒu hòu) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 守候, each with pinyin and an English translation.
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