chair是什么意思_chair怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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.

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;

权威造句

1. He sat penitently in his chair by the window.: 他懊悔地坐在靠窗的椅子上。

2. Bob slid from his chair and lay prone on the floor.: 鲍勃从椅子上滑下来，趴在了地板上。

3. Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair.: 利用午饭时间坐在椅子上打个盹吧。

4. Alistair saw the dim figure of Rose in the chair.: 阿利斯泰尔看见了坐在椅子里的罗丝的模糊身影。

5. I staggered and had to clutch at a chair for support.: 我踉踉跄跄地，不得不抓住一把椅子稳住自己。

近反义词

bench

seat

stool

couch

相似短语

be in the chair 主持会议,担任会议主席

in the chair 担任主席[会长], 处主席地位, [俚](请客)做东道

to chair 主持

straight chair n. 椅背挺直的椅子

rail chair 铁路轨座，轨座

chair rail n.钉在室内墙上使墙壁不被椅子磨损的木条

railway chair 铁路辙枕

basket chair n. 柳条鱼

easy chair n. 安乐椅

editorial chair 主笔职位,编辑主任

单词分析

这些名词均有“椅子”或“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。

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