Sit
[sɪt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) serve in a specific professional capacity; 'the priest sat for confession'; 'she sat on the jury'.
(verb.) be seated.
(verb.) be in session; 'When does the court of law sit?'.
(verb.) be located or situated somewhere; 'The White House sits on Pennsylvania Avenue'.
(verb.) be around, often idly or without specific purpose; 'The object sat in the corner'; 'We sat around chatting for another hour'.
迪克整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(-) obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
(v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
(v. t.) To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
(v. t.) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
(v. t.) To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
(v. t.) To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
(v. t.) To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.
(v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
(v. t.) To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
(v. t.) To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
(v. t.) To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
(v. t.) To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
(v. t.) To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
(v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To suit (well / ill); to become.
手打:齐妮亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Be seated, have a seat.[2]. Perch (as a bird).[3]. Stay, rest, settle.[4]. Brood (as fowls), incubate.[5]. Fit, be adjusted.[6]. Hold a session.
艾琳校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to rest on the haunches: to perch as birds: to rest: to remain abide: to brood: to occupy a seat esp. officially: to be officially engaged: to blow from a certain direction as the wind: to be worn to fit to be becoming: to take an attitude of readiness or for any special purpose: to hold a deliberative session.—v.t. to keep a seat or good seat upon: to seat place on a seat:—pr.p. sit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. sat.—n. a subsidence of the roof of a coal-mine: (slang) a situation.—adj. Sit′-fast fixed stationary.—n. a callosity of the skin under the saddle often leading to ulcer.—ns. Sit′ter; Sit′ting state of resting on a seat: a seat a special seat allotted to a seat-holder at church &c.; also the right to hold such: the part of the year in which judicial business is transacted: the act or time of resting in a posture for a painter to take a likeness: an official meeting to transact business: uninterrupted application to anything for a time: the time during which one continues at anything: a resting on eggs for hatching the number hatched at one time; Sit′ting-room the parlour or most commonly used room in many houses.—Sit down to take a seat: to pause rest: to begin a siege; Sit loose or loosely to be careless or indifferent; Sit on or upon to hold an official inquiry regarding: (slang) to repress check; Sit out to sit or to sit apart during: to await the close of; Sit under to be in the habit of hearing the preaching of; Sit up to raise the body from a recumbent to a sitting position: to keep watch during the night (with).
編輯:罗德里克
例句/造句/用法:
- For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The girl had a little parlour to sit in, away from the noise of the taproom, and a clean bedchamber at the top of the house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They would not yet let me go: I must sit down and write before them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He was something agreeable to sit near, to hover round, to address and look at. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Why do I sit here still? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She could sit up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Miss Havisham sat listening (or it seemed so, for I could not see her face), but still made no answer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Come, come, I'll write you a cheque,' said the little man; and down he sat at the table for that purpose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Bradley, very white, sat looking at him in silence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Hopkins's brow was clouded, and he sat down with an air of deep dejection. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Then it slowly arose, and sat in the window looking out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But it passed with the action of rising from her chair; and she sat down again very meekly, and fainted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- No, I have nothing to give you instead, he said, sitting up and turning so that he faced her. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She was sitting near the window, with her head reclined on her hand, and appeared more than usually pensive. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- When you left Miss Verinder's sitting-room, with the jewel in your hand, you went back in all probability to your own room---- Yes? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Laura was sitting alone at the far end of the room, her arms resting wearily on a table, and her face hidden in her hands. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The moon is rising, and where she sits there is a little stream of cold pale light, in which her head is seen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She sits upon her stone, and takes no heed of him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I sits me down and says it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- On high, amid all this grotesqueness, sits the departed doge. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She sits, in her stately manner, holding her hand, and regardless of its roughness, puts it often to her lips. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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