Chair

(noun.) a seat for one person, with a support for the back; 'he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down'.

(noun.) a particular seat in an orchestra; 'he is second chair violin'.

(verb.) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; 'She chaired the department for many years'.

手打:旺达

• I felt it against the back of the chair. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Will started up from his chair and reached his hat. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Dorothea by this time had turned cold again, and now threw herself back helplessly in her chair. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But it passed with the action of rising from her chair; and she sat down again very meekly, and fainted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Handing chairs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• While we were still poking about among the chairs and tables, the door of the bed-room was suddenly opened. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The chairs and table, and the bottle so rarely absent from the table, all stand as usual. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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