on standby

基本解释

Medevac and some explosives folks were on standby but they did not actually respond.
医疗和爆破人员也在一旁待命，但是他们并没有真正执行任务。
Reducing peak demand means fewer power stations need to be on standby, thereby cutting carbon emissions.
减少用电高峰意味着减少待命发电站的数量，从而降低碳排放量。
File systems on the standby nodes are not mounted until the point of failover, so accidental use of data on standby nodes is not possible.
在执行故障转移之前，备用节点上的文件系统没有挂载，所以不可能意外地使用备用节点上的数据。

'We're going to have to look at the car." "I have Toyota on standby to help us with our investigation, and we definitely want to get to the bottom of it."