- 1女侍從（侍奉王后或公主的貴族女子）
A lady-in-waiting is a woman, often of high rank herself, who attends a queen or princess. She is not the maid who scrubs floors. She keeps company, helps with clothes and letters, stands nearby at ceremonies. Waiting here is the old sense: service — like a waiter bringing something — not sitting in a chair until something happens. European courts had them; royal households still use the word. The job is honour and closeness, not only .
lady-in-waiting 指侍奉王后或公主的女子，通常自己也出身高貴。她不是打掃的女僕，而是陪伴主人、協助穿衣與處理信件，並在儀式場合在旁服侍。這裡的 waiting 是古義的「服侍」，不是「等待」。歐洲宮廷過去都有這種職位，皇室至今仍用這個詞，工作重點在榮譽與親近，而不是雜務。
From the word’s history
From lady + in + waiting 'attendance, service'.
由 lady、in、waiting「侍候」組成。
組成lady + in + waiting, and waiting means attendance, service, not passing time.
原始詞典資料1 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。
lady-in-waitingnoun/ˌleɪdɪ ɪn ˈweɪtɪŋ/
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A lady, often a noblewoman, in the household of a queen, princess, or other woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant, generally a role considered an honour.
- [T]he electreſs [Sophia Charlotte of Hanover] was heard to ſay to one of her ladies in waiting, "that it vexed her to the very heart to go and act in Pruſſia the theatrical queen along with her Eſop.["]
- This night, after eleven o'clock, as the royal family were returning from Drury-lane theatre, when the carriages had reached the end of John-street, Pall Mall, a stone was flung with such force as to break one of the glass pannels in the coach, in which were their majesties and the lady in waiting; which, after striking the queen on the cheek, fell into lady Harrington's lap.
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。