sit

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 sĭt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Clipping of situation. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal
    — The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.”
  2. An act of sitting.
  3. Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
  4. An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. rare
动词 v.
  1. To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. copulative,intransitive
    — After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
    He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
  2. To move oneself into such a position. intransitive
    — I asked him to sit.
  3. To occupy a given position. intransitive
    — The dishes are still sitting on the table!
  4. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. copulative,intransitive
    — And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
  5. To be a member of a deliberative body.
    — I currently sit on a standards committee.
  6. Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
    — In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session?
  7. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
    — The calamity sits heavy on us.
  8. To be adjusted; to fit.
    — Your new coat sits well.
  9. To be accepted or acceptable; to work. intransitive
    — How will this new contract sit with the workers?
  10. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to. causative,transitive
    — Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
  11. To accommodate in seats; to seat. transitive
    — The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
  12. To babysit. US,ambitransitive
    — I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
  13. To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test). Australia,New-Zealand,UK,transitive
  14. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
    — The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
  15. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
    — I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
  16. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
    — like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
  17. To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with. obsolete,transitive
    — Louisa, who […] had but ill born the commencement of this conversation, could sit it no longer, and hastily throwing up the sash, complained of the intense heat of the room.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
be found be situate

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sed-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti
Proto-Germanic *sitjaną
Proto-West Germanic *sittjan
Old English sittan
Middle English sitten
English sit
From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja, Danish sidde, Faroese sita, Icelandic sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).
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