seat
seat 英 [si:t] 美 [sit]
n. 座位; vt. 使…坐下;
进行时:seating 过去式:seated 过去分词:seated 第三人称单数:seats 名词复数:seats
- Something you can sit on, especially if it's a bench, stool, sofa, or chair, is a seat. Most bicycles have one seat, while many motorcycles have two seats.
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- n. 座位;
- vt. 使…坐下;
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1. She sat back in her seat.
她坐在那里,往后靠了靠。
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2. Please take a seat.
请坐。
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3. a child seat
(汽车上的)幼儿座
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4. a ten-seater minibus
十座小公共汽车
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5. book a seat , reserve a seat
预订一个座位
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6. to win a seat, to lose a seat,
(在选举中)赢得╱失去一个席位
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7. Please wait to be seated .
请等候安排入座。
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8. The aircraft seats 200 passengers.
这架飞机能坐 200 名乘客。
- seat (n.1) "thing to sit on; act of sitting," c. 1200, from Old Norse sæti "seat, position," from Proto-Germanic *sæt- (source also of Old High German saze, Middle Dutch gesaete "seat," Old High German gisazi, German Gesäß "buttocks"), from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit." Meaning "posterior of the body" (the sitting part) is from c. 1600; sense of "part of a garment which covers the buttocks" is from 1835. Seat belt is from 1915, originally in airplanes.
- seat (n.2) "residence, abode, established place," late 13c., extended use of seat (n.1), influenced by Old French siege "seat, established place," and Latin sedes "seat." Meaning "city in which a government sits" is attested from c. 1400. Sense of "right of taking a place in a parliament or other legislative body" is attested from 1774. Old English had sæt "place where one sits in ambush," which also meant "residents, inhabitants," and is the source of the -set in Dorset and Somerset.
- seat (v.) 1570s, "to be in a certain position" (implied in seated), from seat (n.2). Of diseases, in the body, from 1610s (hence deep-seated). Meaning "to cause to sit in a seat" is from 1610s, from seat (n.1). Related: Seated; seating.
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