seat

seat
noun

a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool
座位
■the roughly horizontal part of a chair, on which one's weight rests directly
（椅子的）座部
■a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience
车辆上或观众的座位
we have a fairly small theatre with about 1,300 seats.
我们有一个约1,300个座位的较小剧场。
■(chiefly Brit.)a place in an elected parliament or council
(主英)（议会或委员会中的）席位
he lost his seat in the 1997 election.
他在1997年的选举中落选了。
■(Brit.)a parliamentary constituency
(英)议会议员选区
a safe Labour seat in the North-East.
工党在东北部稳操胜券的选区。
■a site or location of something specified
地点；地址
Parliament House was the seat of the Scots Parliament until the Union with England.
直到与英格兰统一之前，议会大厦一直是苏格兰议会的所在地。
■short for country seat
country seat的简称
■a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
（机器的）基座，底座
a person's buttocks
（人的）臀部
■the part of a garment that covers the buttocks
（裤子的）后裆下部，臀部
■a manner of sitting on a horse
（骑马的）骑姿
he's got the worst seat on a horse of anyone I've ever seen.
他骑马的姿势是我所看见的最差的。

verb

[with obj.]arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere
使就座，领…坐下
Owen seated his guests in the draughty baronial hall.
欧文安排他的客人坐在凉风习习的豪华大厅里。
■(seat oneself 或 be seated)sit down
坐下
she invited them to be seated.
她请他们坐下。
[as adj. seated]a dummy in a seated position.
一个坐姿玩偶。
■(of a place such as a theatre or restaurant) have seats for (a specified number of people)
（剧场、餐厅等）可容纳；坐得下（一定数量的人）
a large tent that seats 100 to 150 people.
一个可容纳100到150人的大帐篷。
■[with obj. and adverbial of place]fit in position
固定，安装
upper boulders were simply seated in the interstices below.
上层卵石刚好填在下面的缝隙中。

常用词组
take one's seat

sit down, typically in a seat assigned to one
就座（尤指坐在指定的位置）
■start to take part in the business of an assembly after being elected
（当选后）就职

派生
seatless
adjective
语源

Middle English (as a noun): from Old Norse sæti, from the Germanic base of sit. The verb dates from the late 16th cent

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