核心畫面

One way to hold this word: stand at the door of a hall and look in, and you do not count chair, chair, chair — you see one field of seats. Seating is the word for that whole field. From there it stretches two ways: to the plan that says who sits where in it, and to the rounds of people who are let into it.

可以想成:站在禮堂門口往裡面看,你不會一張一張數椅子,你看到的是一整片座位。seating 就是在講那一整片。從這裡更多收起可以想成:站在禮堂門口往裡面看,你不會一張一張數椅子,你看到的是一整片座位。seating 就是在講那一整片。從這裡它往兩邊長:一邊長成「誰坐哪裡」的那張表,一邊長成「一批一批放人進來坐」的梯次。

Two branches

一整片座位,以及它是什麼做的

這一家把座位當成一整片來看,所以都不加複數。

noun · B1

All the seats that a place provides for people, thought of together as one thing. It is used about theatres, cinemas, restaurants, halls, stations, and other public places.

座位(總稱)

誰坐哪裡,什麼時候進去坐

同樣一片座位,重點從「有多少」換成「怎麼安排人進去」。

noun · B1

The way people are placed in seats, decided in advance — in other words, who sits where.

座位安排

原始詞典資料8 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。

seatingnoun/ˈsiːtɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of one that seats.

    • The seating of passengers will begin soon.
  • 2

    The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.

    • There is plenty of comfortable seating.
    • Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station.
  • 3

    A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.

    • The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.
    • an exclusive restaurant offering just ten spaces per seating
  • 4

    Material for making seats.

    • cane seating
  • 5

    obsoleteHaircloth.

  • 6

    engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsCollectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.

  • 7

    businessmanufacturingshipbuildingThat part of the floor which rests on the keel.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。