We had to queue for long time to get in to the concert.
我们排队等了好久才进音乐会现场。
Dozens of people were queueing up to buy a cup of milky tea.
几十个人在排队买杯奶茶。
I have to queue up for an hour to buy tickets for the concert.
我得排一个小时的队才能买到音乐会的票。
The children were
queuing patiently for their turn on the swing.
孩子们正在耐心地排队等待荡秋千。
In the cafeteria, we form a queue at the counter to order our food.
在自助餐厅里，我们在柜台前排队点餐。
There's a long queue outside the bank; it seems like they're updating their system.
银行外面排了很长的队，好像他们在更新系统。
At the airport, you must queue in the security check line before boarding your flight.
在机场，你必须在登机前先排队进行安检。
We need to queue up in alphabetical order for the school photo.
我们需要按照字母顺序排队拍学校照片。
The customer service hotline always has a queue, especially during peak hours.
客户服务热线总是有队列，特别是在高峰期。
In some countries, people queue politely even for bus rides.
在一些国家，人们甚至会礼貌地排队等公交车。
The new employees had to queue for their ID badges at the HR department.
新员工必须到人力资源部排队领取工牌。
After the lecture, there was a queue of students waiting to ask the professor questions.
讲座结束后，有一队学生等着向教授提问。
"No longer do I need to get up before dawn and queue up to fetch water from the nearest well," he said, adding that the trip took about half an hour.
他说：“我再也不需要在黎明前起床，排队从最近的水井取水了。”他补充说，这次旅行花了大约半个小时。
"There will be no queue and fewer traffic jams to do the chores as they can go for convenience, benefits and everything in one stop at ochama.
“由于他们可以在奥查马一站式获得便利、福利和一切，所以不会排队，做家务的交通堵塞也会减少。
The long queue out of Huawei's Smart Life Hall on its first opening day on Saturday speaks volumes to consumers' thirst for the convenience of advanced technology, and the potential consumption capacity of the city.
US fried chicken fast food restaurant Popeyes opened its first China outlet in Shanghai on Friday, drawing a long queue of customers that formed as early as four o'clock in the morning.
Mini programs related to civic services were used 900 million times in 2018, while over 60 percent of hospitals used WeChat Service Account, a customer relations management-like function that cuts the average queue time by 43.6 minutes.
2018年，与市民服务相关的迷你程序被使用了9亿次，同时超过60%的医院采用了微信服务号，这是一种类似客户关系管理的功能，它将平均排队时间缩短了43.6分钟。
Eleme and Koubei has facilitated the digitalization and upgrading of the local services market, covering site selection, supply chain, reservation, queuing, ordering, instant delivery and online payment.
The two sides have also planned to carry out the 5G-based queue tests for autonomous vehicles during the 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition that is being held until Oct 7.
Some scalpers formed a long queue at 3 am at Starbucks stores for the limited edition glasses, attempting to sell them at nearly 10 times the official sales price of 199 yuan ($29.71), Beijing News reported.
There is no queuing at the checkout.
At Shenzhen Library, people often have to queue up to use the only “Reading Pavilion”.
Travelers can scan, pay and pass with their smartphones instead of swiping public transportation cards or queuing for tickets.
Known for its Sichuan-style hotpot, hours-long queuing times for tables, and services including manicures, shoe shining, board games and free snacks for customers waiting in line, Haidilao made inroads into Hong Kong last year.
She would not mind queuing for half-hour to lay her hands on a Lady M crepe though.
When Heytea made its foray into the east China market by opening its first store in Shanghai last February, the company had to request for police presence as the queue of customers stretched for hundreds of meters.
Soon, a long queue of trucks appeared at the front gate of their factory.
Eligible companies can skip to the head of the long queue of firms hoping for IPOs on Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses, avoiding years of waiting.
A huge number of customers, or so-called Mi Fans, have been waiting in long queue for more than half an hour to enter the store.
"According to the latest IPO queue information released by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Wanda Commercial ranked No 68, compared with No 65 a week ago.
The prototype opens up the opportunity for small business owners to run AI-backed offline shops and help shoppers avoid the mundane process of queuing up to pay, CEO Zhang said.
"If you need a table for three to four people, there are almost 100 groups of customers ahead of you in the queue," said Zhang Jianwei, owner of the restaurant, adding that one of their branches received over 1,200 tables of guests during Friday noon.
Guoyuan Port in Southwest China's Chongqing is bustling, with rows of new energy vehicles queuing up to be transported overseas via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.
At a milk tea shop on the first floor of the plaza, queuing customers crowd the 15-square-meter store.
"On New Year's Eve, customers started to queue at noon," said Sha Jingjing, the manager of a hotpot restaurant in Beijing's Chaoyang district.
Long-expected queuing scenes appeared outside some restaurants in the shopping mall, which was rarely seen amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022.
Bustling shopping centersDuty-free stores in South China's Hainan Free Trade Port have been filled with consumers queuing up for perfume, cosmetics and electronics during the holiday.
Starbucks fans battled at the queue to buy the cute cups although they already have many coffee mugs.
Maersk, the shipping and logistics business of A. P. Moller-Maersk Group, redirected 15 vessels by Sunday where the company deemed the delay of sailing around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa equal to the current delay of sailing to Suez and queuing.
"Furthermore, some of the opening measures in the Chinese market will create efficiency-enhancing competition and bring know-how," she said, noting that foreign-invested private hospitals, for example, can shorten queuing time in public hospitals and raise salaries of medical staff.
According to Alex Wu, NaaS Technology's president and chief financial officer, the robot eliminates the trouble of plugging heavy charging cables into EVs and waiting in a queue for a charging pile.
Energy storage companies are rapidly queuing for initial public offerings, indicating a willingness to embrace the capital market at a time of explosive growth for the sector.
Every day, a long queue begins forming at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province at around 7 am, half an hour before it opens.
At noon outside Makai Restaurant in central Beijing, a long queue of eager customers could be seen almost every day over the past two weeks, as businesses continue to revive following China's optimization of its COVID-19 response.
At Youyi Pass on the China-Vietnam border, trucks carrying electrical and mechanical products for export formed a long queue near the pass, waiting for customs clearance.
"On New Year's Eve, customers started to queue at noon," said Sha Jingjing, manager of a hotpot restaurant in Beijing's Chaoyang district.
Although China had just resumed international travel, Zhang saw many Putonghua-speaking tourists around Paris, including in a long queue at a Louis Vuitton store.
Over a weekend in February, my friend went skiing at a venue in Changping district in suburban Beijing, and she didn't expect that the long queue of cars would block her outside the ski field.
The upcoming Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have fueled interest in winter sports, as evidenced by the large number of people browsing related products and queuing up to try the alpine skiing simulators and skate on the artificial ice rink at the fourth China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
即将举行的北京2022年冬奥会和冬残奥会激发了公众对冬季运动的热情，这一点在第四届中国国际进口博览会上得到了印证。众多参观者浏览相关产品，争相排队体验高山滑雪模拟器，并在人造冰场上滑冰。
She was frequently gazing at the long queue outside her office, and I couldn't get my mind straight in that situation.
她常常凝视着办公室外那条长长的队伍，而我面对那种情形思绪难安。
There is already a long queue of customers waiting with bags of maize outside his small shop.
他的小店外已经排起了一条长长的队伍，顾客们手里拎着装满玉米的袋子，正在等候。
As a result, in addition to food delivery, Chinese couriers are now also running all kinds of errands from buying bottled water or vegetables for customers, to queuing up and delivering medicine.
These digitalized services will include site selection of restaurants, supply chain, reservations, queuing, ordering, instant delivery, online payments and service ratings based on evaluation or user reviews.
In addition, previously in some pilot communities, people could only throw away garbage at fixed time, for example, from 7:30 am to 9:30 am and from 6 pm to 8 pm, and had to queue in front of the fixed collection points because there were only few of them.
As its name suggests, the function embedded in WeChat allows shoppers to check out without queuing at the cash register, shortening the payment procedure and overall increasing the turnover of shops.
"There will be a huge amount of baggage to be checked in, and I want to be the first in the queue," Saada said, eyeing three pieces of baggage beside her, dwarfed by piles of large baggage from other passengers.
Recognizing such demands, Meituan-Dianping is leveraging its ecosystem both online, where customers can search nearby restaurants, order food delivery and book a restaurant, and offline, where users queue up, order food and pay through the company's cashier system.
Users need to first upload more than 20 photos to the app, and then queue virtually for a few hours to get the results.
At the booth where visitors could play the game on Wednesday, the queue was so long that people had to wait around two hours for their turn.
During peak hours, some users wait more than 15 hours to get a digital clone with over 6,000 users in the queue.
This results in problems such as slow charging speeds, long queue times and low turnover efficiency.
But (there it goes again), you've to join a long queue for that.
Even if you were lucky to find a high-voltage one and luckier still to avoid a queue, you'd yet need to wait for a good 40 minutes for your e-car to get charged 80 percent, assuming your vehicle is one of the most common models.
"Even fast charging takes 40 minutes and, to make it worse, sometimes you queue up for hours to wait for your turn.
即使快速充电也需要40分钟，更糟糕的是，有时你还需要排队等待数小时才能轮到你。
"I don't have to queue up for a taxi or jam myself into a subway coach," said Feng, 31, who runs a small business in one of China's most expensive cities.
Looking forward to the second half, the number of companies queuing for IPOs will remain high, said Terence Ho, EY IPO Leader in China.
Yu Lingqu, deputy director of the Department of Finance and Modern Industries at Shenzhen-based think tank China Development Institute (CDI), agreed and added that "the market is huge as China's progress in innovation and entrepreneurship is starting to be reflected in the capital market, and many high-quality candidates are queuing up to go public.
There has been a long queue for IPOs on other boards in the A-share market.
But IPO application approval rate is rising slowly, with the number of companies in the queue dropping from 519 at the end of last year to 307 in June.
They would have to wait for 1,000 years or longer in the queue.
Shorter queue could shorten the waiting time to less than 10 months from the peak of over 2 years in the past, market insiders said.
"Problems may occur such as lacking small change or having to wait in a long queue.
"But the regulator may face greater pressure to maintain a reasonable supply of new shares while ensuring the quality of the IPOs given that there has been a long queue of companies seeking to float shares in the public market," Gai said.
The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges saw a surge of IPOs in the first half of 2017 as the securities regulator stepped up the pace of the approval process to clear the long queue of companies waiting to get listed.
The hot commodity markets attract not only retail investors in large numbers but also companies from China and even some foreign institutions and hedge funds to join the queue.
China's top securities regulator has become stricter on the quality of queuing applicants along with a bid to normalize IPO proceeds to better serve the real economy, said Pan Xiangdong, chief economist with New Times Securities told the newspaperThe A-share market was known with the occasional IPO hiatus in the time of volatility and short liquidity.
The Chinese mainland's two largest stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen have seen a surge of new listings in the first half of the year as the regulator speeds up the approval process to clear the long queue of companies waiting to get listed.
How long it will take is still up in the air, he added: "As far as we know, there are more than 200 companies queuing up for licenses, but no one knows how long it will take before approval can be obtained.