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单词 sitting
释义 sitting
 /sit"ing/,  n.  
  1. the act of a person or thing that sits.
  2. a period of remaining seated, as in posing for a portrait or reading a book.
  3. the space on or in which one sits, as in a church.
  4. a brooding, as of a hen upon eggs; incubation.
  5. the number of eggs on which a bird sits during a single hatching; clutch.
  6. a session, as of a court or legislature.
  7. the time or space allotted to the serving of a meal to a group, as aboard a ship.
  adj.  
  8. (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
  9. of, for, or suited to sitting: a sitting area in the lobby.
  10. holding an official position or office; occupying an appointed or elected seat; incumbent: a sitting pontiff.
  11. in session or at work; active: a sitting legislature.
  12. sitting pretty, in an auspicious position: He's been sitting pretty since he got that new job.
 [1175-1225; ME; see SIT1, -ING1, -ING2]
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