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lady-in-waiting

/ley-dee-in-wey-ting/US // ˈleɪ di ɪnˈweɪ tɪŋ //

侍女,侍从夫人,侍从室,侍者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural la·dies-in-wait·ing.

    • : a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
    • : Facetious. a woman who is pregnant: flattering fashions for the lady-in-waiting.

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Examples

  • I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?

  • Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

  • Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.

  • This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

  • Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

  • Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

  • The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.

  • Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!

  • We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.

  • At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.