Someone stays where they are while time goes past. They are not moving on, not giving up, and not doing anything about it yet; they are simply letting the hours run and staying put. From that one picture you can get living in a place, waiting for the right moment, and holding out against something unpleasant.
From the word’s history
Old English bidan meant to stay, to remain, to wait for. The modern uses are all still that one action, applied to different things: a place, a moment, or a hardship.
古英語 bīdan 的意思就是「停留、繼續待著、等待」。今天各種用法其實都還是同一個動作，只是待的對象不同：待在一個地方、等一個時刻、撐住一件難受的事。
Wiktionary, "bide"
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bidename
- 1
A surname.
bideverb/baɪd/
- 1
dialectalTo bear; to endure; to tolerate.
- And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt
- 2
archaicTo face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
- Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
- 3
archaicdialectalTo dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
- All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
- But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.
- 4
archaicdialectalTo wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
- And thither wending there that night they bode.
- "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."
- 5
archaicTo wait for; to await.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。