为某人提供服务或帮助：指为某人提供所需的服务或帮助。
等待某人或某事的到来或发生：指在某个地点等待某人或某事的到来或发生。
延迟提供（一顿饭）：指推迟提供一顿饭，直到特定条件满足。
wait on //
动词 to serve at the table of 伺候
stop! hold on! 停下！等一下！
wait on 服侍(某人); 服侍, 招待, 拜访, 焦急地等待; 服侍,侍候; 服侍，伺候; 服务; 故意紧随; 伺候，服侍; 伺候，谒见，等候..
... turn on 打开 转而攻击 wait on 伺候，服侍 work on/at 写 (书)，修理等；学习 ...
... dependon（依靠）， wait on（侍候）， carry on（执行）， ...
... coddle vt. 悉心照料，娇养，溺爱 wait on 服侍（某人）；招待（顾客） adversity n. 逆境，苦难 ...
服侍；焦急地等待
There were plenty of servants to wait on her.
有许多佣人服侍她。
Please wait on the chair over there until you are called.
请在那边的椅子上等待呼叫。
Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the position.
作为一种典型的女性职业，护士必须不断地克服一种错误的印象，即护士总是站在自己的岗位上等待的形象。
"We'll need to wait for all the girls to enter puberty before we have a good grasp on what the contribution is of those environmental chemicals."
VOA : special.2010.08.18
Put yourself down on the wait list if you don't get into the section you want.
如果你想换个小组,请在等候名录里预约
博弈论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Come on. I need more lights. Wait a minute.
加油，我需要更多光线，等下。
计算机科学课程节选 : 哈佛公开课
"I don't really do a whole lot. I normally just spend time with family, go out to eat,hang out, wait for the ball to drop on TV."
VOA : special.2009.12.28
I could not wait to grow up and be off on my own.
VOA : special.2010.01.30
For decades we were expected to stay at home and wait on men hand and foot.
Twenty dress shirts wait on the wicker couch in his West Village town house.
But we will have to wait on Wilko's fitness and see what happens after that.