| 释义 |
sit-in, a. and n. orig. U.S.
[The phrase sit in (see sit v. 24 and -in3) used attrib. and as n.]
A. adj. Of a strike, demonstration, etc.: in which persons occupy a work place, public building, etc., esp. in protest against alleged activities there. Of a person: participating in such a strike or demonstration. Also, of or pertaining to such a strike or demonstration.
1937Sun (Baltimore) 3 Apr. 7/2 (caption) The Synthetic Yarn Federation Local 2214..is staging a ‘sit-in’ strike at Covington. 1938Topeka (Kansas) Capital 26 Nov. 12/5 [Daladier] used..police to eject sit-in strikers from factories. 1941Sun (Baltimore) 15 Apr. 3/3 (heading) New York students stage ‘sit-in’ protest. Spurn holiday to make demonstration against proposed school closing. 1948Ibid. 25 Nov. 1/4 Passengers aboard the strike-bound luxury liner Queen Elizabeth today were ordered to get off by Friday, but approximately 900 said no and voted for a ‘sit-in’ strike. 1959Times 10 Jan. 6/7 A warning to passengers not to repeat the recent ‘sit-in’ strikes on the London Underground was given yesterday. 1960Time 14 Mar. 21/1 Negro ‘sit-in’ demonstrations at segregated lunch counters. 1960Guardian 25 July 7/3 The two men had agreed..to express ‘support for the objectives of the sit-in demonstrators’ in the South. 1973Black World Mar. 37 Pressure for opening the main-stream of American life to Blacks mounted in the 1950's—the sit-in kids, the Supreme Court School Desegregation Decision, [etc.]. 1973Times 17 Nov. 8/2 During May [1936] the French Treasury almost ran out of funds... There was..a great wave of ‘sit-in’ strikes. 1980Washington Post 1 Feb. a2/1 Their refusal to budge officially launched the sit-in phase of the civil rights movement.
B. n.
1. A sit-in strike or demonstration.
1937N.Y. Times 29 May 1/7 Fifty members of the Workers Alliance who tried to stage a sit-in at City Hall yesterday were removed..by a dozen policemen. 1941Sun (Baltimore) 15 Apr. 3/3 He approved the ‘sit in’ as an ‘orderly and dignified protest’. 1960Newsweek 22 Feb. 27 What some Negroes were calling the ‘sit-down’ and some the ‘sit-in’. 1960Commentary June 525/2 The spread of similar picket lines to other cities..seems to have been as spontaneous as the sit-ins themselves. 1965Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 11 Mar. (1970) 250 Some of the Civil Rights marchers had walked into the White House..and refused to budge. A sit-in in the White House! 1973Law Reports: Appeal Cases Nov. 858 A sit-in per se is not threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour. 1976Times 10 May 20/5 Sit-ins and work-ins are used by employees..increasingly..as a tactic in collective bargaining. 1978Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 1/1 Mothers who last year threatened to stage a sit-in on St. Austell's Truro Road are again worried that a child is going to be knocked down and killed there.
2. A participant in a sit-in strike or demonstration. U.S.
1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 557 Most lay newspapers would simply describe such persons [sc. sitters-in] as sit-ins. 1970Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 19 Mar. 1/8 A group of people willing to commit civil disobedience will sit down on the pavement in front of the building, obstructing the entrance. If these sit-ins are arrested, another group will take their place.
Hence ˈsit-inner = sit-in n. 2.
1946Sun (Baltimore) 26 Oct. 3/1 Sixty American War Department civilian employés..held to their rooms in the luxury Hotel Excelsior tonight as the midnight deadline approached for them to obey army orders to move out. Officially an army spokesman said no action was contemplated against the defiant ‘sit-inners’ until after midnight. 1960New Left Rev. Sept.–Oct. 39/2 The police hosed and clubbed the sit-inners. |