ready
adjective uk/ˈred.i/ us/ˈred.i/
(PREPARED)
A1 准备好的，有准备的；现成的；方便使用的
prepared and suitable for fast activity
[ + to infinitive ] Are you ready to leave? 你准备好离开了吗？
Are you ready to order, Madam? 现在可以点菜了吗，女士？
Okay, Evie, ready when you are (= I am ready to do what we have arranged). 好了，埃薇，我都准备好了，就等你了。
Dinner's ready! 可以吃晚饭了！
Are you ready? Hurry up - we're late. 准备好了吗？快点——我们都晚了。
We're leaving at eight o'clock, so you've got half an hour to get ready. 我们8点钟出发，所以你还有半个小时准备。
The army are said to be ready for action. 据说军队已经做好准备随时采取行动。
The concert hall was made/got ready (= prepared) for the performance. 音乐厅已为这场演出准备妥当。
ready and waiting 准备好并等待着；准备好随时行动
waiting and prepared to act
Secret information allowed the police to be ready and waiting when the robbers came out of the bank. 由于得到秘密线报，警方布下埋伏，等着劫匪从银行出来自投罗网。
We're all here, ready and waiting.
Our forces will be ready and waiting should the enemy invade.
By the time the protestors arrived, the police were there, ready and waiting.
He found Ironside ready and waiting in the penalty area where he tucked the ball away to make it 3-0.
- More examples
- If you're near the garage, could you check to see if the car's ready?
- Well, he wants the report ready by tomorrow but I can always fob him off with some excuse.
- She had to get the kids ready for school.
- The way things are, I'll never have this ready by June.
- The emergency services are ready to spring into action at a moment's notice.
(QUICK)
[ before noun ] mainly approving快的;机敏的;灵敏的
quick with answers, jokes, solutions, etc.
He had a ready reply to every question. 他对所有的问题都对答如流。
He was charming, with a ready wit (= the ability to quickly say clever and funny things). 他很有魅力，而且机智风趣。
Idioms
be ready to do somethingidiom informal马上要；即将要；随时
to be going to do something immediately
I should think you're about ready to collapse after all that walking. 走了那么远的路，我应该想到你要累垮了。
愿意做，乐意做，情愿做
to be willing to do something
These men are ready to die for their country. 这些人甘愿为国牺牲。
be ready to rollidiom mainly US 就绪;即将发生
to be going to start soon
The new TV series from the West Wing team is ready to roll. “白宫风云”小组制作的新电视连续剧即将播放。
即将离开
to be going to leave soon
Give me a call when you're ready to roll and I'll meet you outside. 当你准备好要走的时候给我一个电话，我会在外面和你汇合。
ready to handidiom UK 随手可取；随时可用；在手头准备好
close to you and therefore available for use when necessary
The sheriff slept with his gun ready to hand under his pillow. 治安官睡觉时把枪放在枕头底下，伸手就能拿出来。
ready, steady, go!idiom UK 各就各位，预备，跑！（尤指用于小孩子们赛跑时）
said at the start of a race, especially one for children
ready
noun uk/ˈred.i/ us/ˈred.i/
at the ready 准备好；可随时使用；可随时采取行动
prepared to be used or to act immediately
He stood by the phone, pencil at the ready. 他准备好了铅笔，站在电话旁。
Elsewhere, groups of soldiers waited at the ready.
Tonight I'm watching the episode in which her brother dies so it'll be tissues at the ready.
A young policeman was sitting in the corner, notebook at the ready.
I'm looking out to sea, binoculars at the ready, hoping to see a dolphin.