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一、chair是什么意思

1、chair 椅子，主持

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2、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。

二、chair的用法

1、chair

2、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.=> cathedral

3、chair (n.)

4、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.

5、chair (v.)

6、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.

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