英汉词典

chair 基本解释

• 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

chair 词态变化

chair 中文词源

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。

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.

chair 词组搭配

chair 英文释义

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"

chair 同义词解析

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。

chair 双语例句

1. He sat penitently in his chair by the window.

他懊悔地坐在靠窗的椅子上。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

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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。

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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。

来自柯林斯例句

chair 实用场景例句

Who's chairing the meeting?

谁主持这次会议？

牛津词典

an old man asleep in a chair (= an armchair )

在扶手椅里睡着了的老人

牛津词典

She takes the chair in all our meetings.

她主持我们所有的会议。

牛津词典

Who is in the chair today?

今天谁主持？

牛津词典

He was elected chair of the city council.

他当选为市议会主席。

牛津词典

He holds the chair of philosophy at Oxford.

他是牛津大学哲学系的系主任。

牛津词典

Sit on your chair!

坐在你的椅子上！

牛津词典

a table and chairs

一套桌椅

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In the chair was Morien Morgan...

会议由莫里恩·摩根主持。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Wheeler took the chair of this sub-committee...

惠勒担任该小组委员会会议主席。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He rose from his chair and walked to the window.

他从椅子上站起来，朝窗口走去。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I'd better have a think before I decide.

我最好还是先想想再做决定.

期刊摘选

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.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The falling tree just grazed his chair.

倒下的树刚刚擦过他的椅子.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He settled himself more comfortably in his chair.

他使自己在椅子上坐得更舒服些.

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This is a very solid chair.

这把椅子很结实.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He's brushing the chair clean.

他正把椅子刷洗干净.

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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.

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He pushed the chair aside.

他把椅子推到一边.

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She swivelled the chair around to face them.

她把椅子转过来面向他们.

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The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.

主席厉声斥责听众哄笑.

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