首页英语词典chairchair的意思

chair

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近义词bench seat

n. 椅子；讲座；（会议的）主席位；大学教授的职位
vt. 担任（会议的）主席；使…入座；使就任要职
n. (Chair)人名；(法)谢尔

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词态变化

复数: chairs;第三人称单数: chairs;过去式: chaired;过去分词: chaired;现在分词: chairing;

中文词源

chair 椅子，主持

来自拉丁词cathedra，cat-, 向下，-hed,坐，同sit, seat. 比喻义主持，权威。比较holy seat, 圣座。

英英释意

1. a seat for one person, with a support for the back;: "he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"

2. the position of professor;: "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"

3. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;: "address your remarks to the chairperson"

4. an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair;: "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"

英文词源

chair: chair: [13] Chair comes ultimately from Greek kathédrā ‘seat’ (source also of cathedral, of course), which was a compound originally meaning literally ‘something for sitting down on’ – it was formed from katá- ‘down’ and *hed- ‘sit’. It produced Latin cathedra, which in Old French became chaiere, the source of the English word.

The use of chair specifically for the seat occupied by someone presiding at a meeting dates from the mid 17th century, and its metaphorical extension to the person sitting in it, as symbolizing his or her office – as in ‘address one’s remarks to the chair’ – is virtually contemporary (‘The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many schoolboys’, Thomas Burton’s Diary, 23 March 1658); but its use as a synonym for chairperson, to avoid a distinction on grounds of sex, is a late 20th-century development.
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chair (n.): early 13c., chaere, from Old French chaiere "chair, seat, throne" (12c.; Modern French chaire "pulpit, throne;" the more modest sense having gone since 16c. with variant form chaise), from Latin cathedra "seat" (see cathedral).

Figurative sense of "authority" was in Middle English, of bishops and professors. Meaning "office of a professor" (1816) is extended from the seat from which a professor lectures (mid-15c.). Meaning "seat of a person presiding at meeting" is from 1640s. As short for electric chair from 1900.
chair (v.): mid-15c., "install in a chair or seat" (implied in chairing), from chair (n.); meaning "preside over" (a meeting, etc.) is attested by 1921. Related: Chaired.

同义词辨析

chair, armchair, bench, stool

这些名词均有"椅子，凳子"之意。

chair：通常指带有靠背的椅子，有时也指有靠背有扶手的椅子。

armchair：指有扶手的椅子。

bench：指可供两人或更多人坐的长凳或石凳，多置于公园或划艇中。

stool：多指方的或圆的无靠背无扶手一人坐的凳子。

考试真题

The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair and read a half dozen newspapers.

The rest he got from sitting in a rocking chair

And I can see myself sitting on a small chair by the fire doing needlework.

The chairs which go with the table are not a complete set.

What does the speaker say about the chairs

For the same reason, he placed the chairs close to each other and raised the temperature to a slightly uncomfortable level.

"They were able to walk fester, had improved balance, and were also able to get up out of a chair faster than the control group," Starr says.

A typical lion tamer in people's mind is an entertainer holding a whip at a chair.

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

I spoke with our delivery department at about ten this morning, and they said that the chairs will be delivered by four this afternoon.

In reality, it's the chair that does the important work.

In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?

Papa, at the head of the table, would push back his chair and pour a glass of red wine, ready to listen.

Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.

We still haven't received the thirty chairs.

When a lion tamer holds a chair n front of the lion's face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time.

When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.

When the world is "waving a chair in your face", you're advised to make a quick decision.

词组搭配

take the chair

act as chairperson

担任主席；主持

实用场景例句

Who's chairing the meeting?: 谁主持这次会议？

an old man asleep in a chair (= an armchair ): 在扶手椅里睡着了的老人

She takes the chair in all our meetings.: 她主持我们所有的会议。

Who is in the chair today?: 今天谁主持？

He was elected chair of the city council.: 他当选为市议会主席。

He holds the chair of philosophy at Oxford.: 他是牛津大学哲学系的系主任。

Sit on your chair!: 坐在你的椅子上！

a table and chairs: 一套桌椅

She is the chair of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military.: 她担任军队女性权益保护顾问委员会主席。

He was about to chair a meeting in Venice of EU foreign ministers...: 他将主持在威尼斯召开的欧盟外长会议。

The declaration was drafted by a committee chaired by Dr Robert Song.: 宣言由罗伯特·桑博士领导的委员会起草。

In the chair was Morien Morgan...: 会议由莫里恩·摩根主持。

Wheeler took the chair of this sub-committee...: 惠勒担任该小组委员会会议主席。

He rose from his chair and walked to the window.: 他从椅子上站起来，朝窗口走去。

He has been appointed to the chair of sociology at Southampton University...: 他被任命担任南安普敦大学的社会学教授一职。

He gave London University £100,000 to establish a chair in Islamic art.: 他资助伦敦大学10万英镑，以设立伊斯兰艺术教授一职。

I'd better have a think before I decide.: 我最好还是先想想再做决定.

Mother cuffed the dog when she found it asleep on a chair.: 妈妈发现狗睡在椅子上就用手把狗打跑了.

The falling tree just grazed his chair.: 倒下的树刚刚擦过他的椅子.

He settled himself more comfortably in his chair.: 他使自己在椅子上坐得更舒服些.

This is a very solid chair.: 这把椅子很结实.

He's brushing the chair clean.: 他正把椅子刷洗干净.

The chair was intended for you, but she took it away.: 那椅子原来是给你准备的, 可是让她拿走了.

He pushed the chair aside.: 他把椅子推到一边.

She swivelled the chair around to face them.: 她把椅子转过来面向他们.

The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.: 主席厉声斥责听众哄笑.

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