喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈtʃerˌpɜːrsən/ · /ˈtʃeəˌpɜːsən/主席

    someone who leads a meeting, or who directs the work of a committee or group.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei was elected chairperson of the student council this year.

    逐字美今年被選為學生會的主席。

    「chairperson」是「帶領會議、或主持委員會／社團工作」的人，中文最常說主席（社團也常說會長）。核心畫面可以想成「坐在『椅子』那個位子上、負責主持的人」——chair 像「主席那個位置」，person 標出「不分男女的那個人」。跟 chairman / chairwoman 並排：chairman 傳統上偏男性，chairwoman 指女性，chairperson 是中性說法；口語裡也常簡稱 the chair。跟 president 不同：president 多半是整個組織的最高負責人，chairperson 更常是「這場會議／這個委員會」的主持人。

    常見搭配

    • chairperson of a committee / club / meeting

      委員會／社團／會議的主席

      the person who leads that committee, club, or meeting

      Hana is the chairperson of our reading club.

    • elect a chairperson

      選出一位主席

      choose someone to be the chairperson by voting

      The class will elect a chairperson next Monday.

    • open / close a meeting

      宣布開會／散會

      start or end a meeting as the chairperson

      The chairperson closed the meeting at four o'clock.

    • ask / address the chairperson

      向主席提問／發言

      speak to the chairperson in a meeting

      If you want to speak, please ask the chairperson first.

    • committee chairperson

      委員會主席

      the person who directs the work of a committee

      The committee chairperson wrote a short plan for next week.

core核心畫面

Picture a long table with one seat at the head of it. Whoever sits there opens the meeting, decides who speaks next, and keeps everyone to the point. In English that seat can stand for the job itself — chair already names the position — so chairperson is simply 'the person in that seat'.

可以想成一張長桌，桌子最上頭有一個位子。坐在那裡的人負責宣布開會、決定接下來換誰說話、把大家拉回主題。英文裡的 chair 本身就可以指這個職位，所以 chairperson 講白了就是「坐那個位子的人」。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 chairpersons

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

chairpersonnoun

  • 1

    A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

    • She was the chairperson of the board and she presided over the meeting.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。