sittings是什么意思？

sittings

英['sɪtɪŋz] 美['sɪtɪŋz]

• n. （摆姿势让人画像或拍照的）一次（时间）( sitting的名词复数 )，开会，入席，（饭店等）一批；

例句

• This painting took five sittings. 这张画有人当了五次模特儿才画成.
• The dining hall is small, so there are two sittings for lunch. 饭厅很小, 所以午饭分两批吃.
• ...the recent emergency sittings of the UN Security Council. 联合国安全理事会最近召开的几次紧急会议
• Dinner was in two sittings. 分两批吃晚饭。
• We have had several preliminary sittings in various poses. 我们进行了几次预拍摄，摆了各种不同的造型。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  (因场地限制而分批用餐的)一批，一轮
  A sitting is one of the periods when a meal is served when there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
  例句
  Dinner was in two sittings. 分两批吃晚饭。
• N-COUNT
  召开会议;举行例会
  A sitting of a parliament, legislature, court, or other official body is one of the occasions when it meets in order to carry out its work.
  例句
  ...the recent emergency sittings of the UN Security Council. 联合国安全理事会最近召开的几次紧急会议
• ADJ
  (总统或议员)现任的，在任期内的
  A sitting president or member of parliament is a present one, not a future or past one.
  例句
  ...the greatest clash in our history between a sitting president and an ex-president. 在我们的历史上发生的现任总统与前任总统之间最为严重的一次冲突
• PHRASE
  处于优越地位;处于优势
  If you are sitting pretty, you are in a very favourable situation.
  例句
  If we'd let them buy it for a quarter of a million, we'd be sitting pretty by now. 要是当初我们让他以 25 万的价钱买下来的话，我们现在就会处于上风了。