| 单词 | to sit at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit at —— to sit at —— intransitive. To be seated at (table, a meal, an occupation, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit on [verb (transitive)] > for a specific purpose to sit at ——OE to sit to ——OE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxii. 272 Efne ða comon fela gerefan..and sæton æt ðam gereorde mid þam hælende and his leorningcnihtum. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xi. 5 Oð þære wylne frumcennedan sunu þe sit æt ðære cweornan. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15560 Menn att bordess sætenn þær. Wiþþ sillferr forr to lenenn. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 1215 Þer after hii sete at hor mete wiþ gret nobleie echon. 1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §62. m. 34 Laborers..long sitting at ther brekfast, at ther dyner and nonemete. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit ix He founde Tobias syttinge at ye table. 1582 G. Gifford Briefe Disc. Relig. (new ed.) f. 26 I praye yee did yee neuer sitte at Cardes all night? 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 819 When we had sitten at supper untill it was two houres. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xvii. 88 One Day, as she and I sat together, at our Needles. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xviii. 169 They..sit long at meals, making much of their meat and drink. a1927 M. Webb Over Hills & Far Away in J. Aaron View across Valley (1999) xii. 128 She would take the chair..into the orchard or the barn, and sit at her work. 2014 J. Nelms Last Time I Died v. 15 I'm sitting at dinner with friends. < as lemmas |
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