核心畫面
You can picture seat as a place that holds a body in a sitting position. The simplest image is the thing you drop onto on a bus or in a theatre: a spot shaped to receive you when you sit. Almost everything else comes from this one move — a body settling into a place that was kept for it.
可以想成「一個讓身體坐下來、被托住的地方」。最樸素的一幕,像是公車上、戲院裡那個你一屁股坐進去的位置——一個專門等著…更多收起
可以想成「一個讓身體坐下來、被托住的地方」。最樸素的一幕,像是公車上、戲院裡那個你一屁股坐進去的位置——一個專門等著接住你身體的地方。後面幾乎所有意思,都是從「身體落進一個為它留好的位置」這個動作延伸出去的。原始詞典資料30 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
SEATname詞源 2/ˈseɪæt/
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Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, a Spanish automobile manufacturer.
SEATnoun詞源 2/ˈseɪæt/
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An automobile from Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
Seatname
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A surname.
seatnoun/siːt/
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Something to be sat upon.
- Several pressmen have nearly lost their lives, to say nothing of the seats of their trousers, from these creatures.
- I love these new biker pants I bought! There's padding in the seat to protect my rear end.
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Something to be sat upon.
- There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
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Something to be sat upon.
- He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.
- the seat of a saddle
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Something to be sat upon.
- She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
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slangaeronauticsaerospaceaviationSomething to be sat upon.
- Hey, fighter boy, our radar's putting out enough energy to launch your seat from this distance!
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Something to be sat upon.
- Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
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Something to be sat upon.
- The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesSomething to be sat upon.
- The seat of the valve had become corroded.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
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A location or site.
- Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
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A location or site.
- Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
- The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih.
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A location or site.
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A location or site.
- A man of fortune, who lives in London, may, in plays, operas, routs, assemblies, French cookery, French sauces, and French wines, spend as much yearly, as he could do, were he to live in the most hospitable manner at his seat in the country.
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A location or site.
- Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
- He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
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lawA location or site.
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historicalA location or site.
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The starting point of a fire.
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Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
- George was a perfect picture on horseback; he had a light, firm seat, and seemed as if he were a part of his horse, and was only happy when away in the saddle for hours together, mustering cattle or tracking a missing horse.
seatverb/siːt/
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To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
- From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills.
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To provide with a place to sit.
- This classroom seats two hundred students.
- The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
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To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
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To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
- You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
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To assign the seats of.
- to seat a church
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To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- This valve isn't seating properly.
- Thus high […] is King Richard seated.
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obsoleteTo rest; to lie down.
- The folds, where sheepe at night doe seat.
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To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- to seat a country
- The Plantations, for the most Part, are high and pleasantly seated
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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To put a seat or bottom in.
- to seat a chair
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。