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sitting

英 ['sɪtɪŋ] 美 ['sɪtɪŋ]

解释

n. 入席，就坐；开庭；孵卵；坐着的一段时间
adj. 坐着的；孵卵中的；在任期中的
v. 坐；坐落（sit的ing形式）
n. (Sitting)人名；(英)西廷

※ 提供单词"sitting"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

sitting 开会

sit,坐下，-ing,动名词后缀。引申比喻义开会。

英文词源

sitting (n.): early 13c., verbal noun from sit (v.). Meaning "a meeting of a body" is from c. 1400. Meaning "interval during which one sits" (for some purpose, especially to have one's portrait taken) is from 1706. Sitting-room first recorded 1771. Slang sitting duck "easy target" first recorded 1944; literal sense is from 1867 (it is considered not sporting to shoot at one).

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例句和用法

1. When you are sitting, keep your elbow on the arm rest.: 坐立时，把胳膊肘靠在扶手上。

2. She had been sitting with her knitting at her fourth-floor window.: 她那时正坐在5楼的窗前织东西。

3. When Eleanor returned, I was still sitting glumly on the settee.: 埃莉诺回来的时候，我还闷闷不乐地坐在长沙发上。

4. A little girl was sitting on the step of the end house.: 一个小女孩正坐在最顶头那幢房子门前的平台上。

5. A few days after his collapse he was sitting up in bed.: 他病倒后没过几天就又能在床上坐起来了。