attendance

n.
1. waiting. service等候，服侍。
△Tw.1.4.11: “Onyour attendance，”i.e.at your service.听候您的吩咐；在伺候着您哪。
2. waiting,waiting on one等候，晋谒某人。dance attendance:❶(lit.)stand “kicking one’s heels”in a waiting-room,i.e. wait with assiduous attention,wait on one without being admitted（本义）在候见室中“脚跟碰脚跟”地站着，殷勤小心地等候（接见），晋谒某人而尚未获准。
△R.Ⅲ.3.7.55 (56):“I dance attendance here；”我在这里恭候接见。
❷wait on a person without being admit-ted晋谒（某人）而不得召见。
△2H.Ⅵ.1.3. 174 (171):“Last time,I danced attendance on his will/Till Pariswas besieged. famished. and lost. ”上一次，我就是恭候他何时愿意召见，一直到巴黎遭到围困、粮尽援绝以至失守。