| 单词 | sitting session |
| 释义 | > as lemmassitting session C3. attributive, with the sense ‘designating a period of time during which a judicial, legislative, or deliberative body is in session’, as sitting session, sitting time, sitting week, etc. Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand.rare before 19th cent. ΚΠ 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 392 A clocke..striketh euery houre on a great bell, to be heard into the Hall, in sitting time of the courts. 1830 Westm. Rev. Oct. 431 How to minimize the quantity of judicial sitting time in a year, without lessening the quantity and productiveness of the fee-gathering time? 1922 Farmer & Settler (Sydney) 11 Aug. 2/3 The report of Tuesday's proceedings in Parliament for each sitting week could well read: ‘Nothing accomplished’. 1997 J. Uhr in G. Galligan et al. New Devel. Austral. Politics iv. 72 The prime minister [was] available for questioning on only two days of each sitting week. 2015 N.Z. Newswire 1 Dec. Members of parliament begin their last sitting session on Tuesday with the government running out of time to deal with a backlog of legislation. < as lemmas |
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