queue
noun [ C ] UK uk/kjuː/ us/kjuː/ (US line)
B1 （人或车排成的）队，行列
a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something
Are you in the queue for tickets? 你是在排队买票吗?
There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road. 车辆在这条路上排起了长龙。
If you want tickets you'll have to join the queue. 你要买票的话就得排队。
disapproving It makes me mad when someone jumps the queue (= goes straight to the front). 有人插队的话我就会很生气。
（想获取某物的）许多人
a lot of people wanting something
There's a queue of companies wanting to sell the product. 有许多公司想销售该产品。
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- Form an orderly queue.
- There was a queue of people waiting patiently for the bus to arrive.
- When the doors opened she barged her way to the front of the queue.
- I was waiting in the bus queue when two men pushed in in front of me.
- She was at the head of the queue but I was at the tail end.
queue
verb [ I ] UK uk/kjuː/ us/kjuː/ (US line); (US line up); (also UK queue up)
B2 排队
to wait in a line of people, often to buy something
Dozens of people were queueing up to get tickets. 几十个人在排队买票。
We had to queue for three hours to get in. 我们排了3个小时队才得以进入。
informal排队（等候）做…，非常想做…
to want very much to do something
[ + to infinitive ] There are thousands of young women queueing up to be models. 成千上万的年轻女子对当模特趋之若鹜。
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- We queued for half an hour waiting for a free space in the car park.
- He queued for two hours and all for nothing - there were no seats left.
- Queue here for signed copies of his book.