Picture someone standing just behind an important person, waiting to be needed — always beside, never the main event. That is the picture under all three uses: the person who waits at the petrol pump or the museum door, the servant at a king's shoulder, and the problems that come along beside a decision.
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原始詞典資料7 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。
attendantnoun/əˈtɛndənt/
- 1
One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
- Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
- 2
A servant or valet.
- 3
archaicA visitor or caller; one who attends (is present at or regularly goes to) some event or place.
- The most remarkable of all the attendants of the exhibition at the grove near Rockville, was the grace and loveliness of the young beauties, who, mingling with the crowd of farmers, were all intent and gazing upon the stock and other agricultural products, unconscious that they were themselves ‘the observed of all observers;’ […]
- In early life our subject was an attendant of Public School No. 17 in Brooklyn, and after fitting himself for business he engaged in various occupations in New York city up to the year 1889, at which time he removed to the town of Hempstead, and during the succeeding six years followed fanning as an occupation.
- 4
That which accompanies or follows.
- 5
lawOne who owes a duty or service to another.
attendantadj/əˈtɛndənt/
- 1
Going with; associated; concomitant.
- They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
- The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
- 2
lawDepending on, or owing duty or service to.
- the widow attendant to the heir
- The tenant in dower[…]shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent.
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。