| 单词 | to sit around |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit around to sit around 1. intransitive. Originally U.S. To sit in a place or various places nearby; to sit idly, to lounge about. Also figurative: to spend one's time unproductively. Cf. to sit about 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 1844 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 20 June The man who cuts his own firewood..—while his fifty negroes, fat and sleek, sit around, warming their backs in the sun. 1915 N. L. McClung In Times like These iv. 42 Personally I sympathize with the young man and believe it would be a happier home if she were as interested in the paper as he and were reading the other half of it instead of sitting around feeling hurt. 1979 Times 13 Nov. 2/8 I could not sit around twiddling my thumbs and doing nothing. 2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 26 July r6 Don't sit around waiting for things to happen—get out there and make them happen. 2. intransitive. To be left here and there, or carelessly out of place; to lie unused or untouched. Cf. to sit about 1 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > be without arrangement [verb (intransitive)] to sit about1849 to lie about1853 to sit around1913 1913 Gospel Trumpet 21 Aug. 521/1 The house is full of flies, especially the kitchen and pantry..—so many fragments of food sitting around. 1985 N. Pileggi Wiseguy (1987) xviii. 226 Lufthansa had been an inside job. How else would the six gunmen have known which of the twenty-two giant cargo warehouses..just happened to have six million dollars in cash and jewels sitting around over the weekend? 2005 Los Angeles Times 2 Apr. a18/3 He knew he shouldn't destroy all of these things but he didn't want to have a whole lot of classified documents sitting around in his office. < as lemmas |
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