let's, bid, bide one's time

Chinese parents in mass suicide bid after rail company fails on jobs promise for children

应该说，“韬光养晦”之所以被西方曲解责难，一方面深刻反映了西方国家一些人士对华固有的政治战略偏见，以及少数反华势力顽固坚持的冷战思维，另一方面也 与我们国内对“韬光养晦”的翻译和解释存在疏漏与偏差有关。例如，外语教学与研究出版社2006年出版的《新世纪汉英大辞典》，就将“韬光养晦”翻译为 “hide one's capabilities and bide one's time”，这与美国《中国军力报告》中的译法几乎一样。
Let's/ Let us

咱們

我們。儒林外史˙第三十四回：「近來咱們地方上響馬甚多，凡過往的客人須要遲行早住。」紅樓夢˙第六十七回：「你不用在這裡混攪了，咱們到寶姐姐那邊去罷！」


咱們/我們這兩是有分別的 (據趙元任)


咱們 是包括 "你們"對待"他們"說的 "你們"也在內的 = Let's

我們 是包括 "他們"對待"你們"說的 "你們"也在內的 = Let us


bid

noun

• 1an offer of a price, especially at an auction:at the fur tables, several buyers make bids for the pelts
•  an offer to buy the shares of a company in order to gain control of it:a takeover bid
•  an offer to do work or supply goods at a stated price; a tender:a number of businessmen were keen to make a bid for the £75 million contract
•  Bridge an undertaking by a player in the auction to make a stated number of tricks with a stated suit as trumps:a bid of three spades

• 2an attempt or effort to achieve something:he made a bid for power in 1984[with infinitive]:an investigation would be carried out in a bid toestablish what had happened

let
v., let, let·ting, lets. v.tr.

1. To give permission or opportunity to; allow: I let them borrow the car. The inheritance let us finally buy a house. See Usage Note at leave¹.
2. To cause to; make: Let the news be known.
3. 1. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal: Let's finish the job! Let x equal y.
   2. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat: Just let her try!
4. To permit to enter, proceed, or depart: let the dog in.
5. To release from or as if from confinement: let the air out of the balloon; let out a yelp.
6. To rent or lease: let rooms.
7. To award, especially after bids have been submitted: let the construction job to a new firm.

v.intr.

1. To become rented or leased.
2. To be or become assigned, as to a contractor.

bide one's time

Wait for the opportune moment, as in The cat sat in front of the mousehole, biding its time. This phrase employs the verb to bide in the sense of "to wait for," a usage dating from about a.d. 950 and surviving mainly in this locution.