喜樂美語

You can picture sitting as one block of time you stay seated in one place doing one thing without getting up — you sit down, you stay sat, and that whole stretch is 'a sitting'. From that single stretch-of-seated-time grow all the uses: one batch of seated together, one stretch of staying still to be painted, one stretch a court or parliament is in session.

可以把 sitting 想成：你坐下來、一直坐著、中途不起身，把一件事做完的那「一段坐定的時間」。整個字都從這個畫面長出來：一批人坐下來一起吃的那一場、坐著不動讓人畫像的那一段、法院或議會坐在席位上開會的那一次。抓住「坐定不起身的那一段時間」，四個用法就串起來了。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

同家族的字

複數 sittings

意思相反

recessadjournment

原始詞典資料12 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。

sittingnoun詞源 1/ˈsɪtɪŋ/

  • 1

    A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

    • Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
    • The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
  • 2

    A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.

    • "It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.
  • 3

    A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

  • 4

    The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.

  • 5

    A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).

  • 6

    The incubation of eggs by a bird.

  • 7

    A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

    • we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
  • 8

    An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

    • I read it in two sittings.

sittingadj詞源 2/ˈsɪtɪŋ/

  • 1

    Executed from a sitting position.

  • 2

    Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

    • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
    • It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.
  • 3

    Of a bird, incubating eggs.

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