workbench
 
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a long table that you lie on to do exercises(= physical activity), for example in a gym（健身房里的）练习台
 
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 the bench
a seat or area of seats where players sit during a game when they are not playing: 运动员休息区;替补队员席
on the benchHe was injured, and spent the last few weeks of the season on the bench.他受伤了，该赛季最后几星期的比赛只能在场下观战。
 
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the judge or magistrate in a law court, or the place where he or she sits: 法官;法官席
Please address your remarks to the bench, Mr Smith.史密斯先生，请向法官陈述。
 serve/sit/be on the bench
to work as a judge or magistrate: 担任法官
Miller, who sits on the bench in San Francisco, issued his order as part of a case that became a broader legal fight.
 take the benchUS
to become a judge: 当法官
Before taking the bench, he worked in the district attorney's office.
If a judge takes the bench, he or she begins a formal meeting of a law court: （法官）宣布开庭
The clerk told us that although the judge had taken the bench, he had ordered the doors to be kept closed.
 the benches
in the UK parliament building, the seats used by the members: （英国议会的）议员席
UKThere was jeering from the Labour benches.工党的议员席上有人发出嘲笑声。
A couple of old codgers were sitting on the park bench, grumbling about the children.公园的长凳上坐着几个怪老头，在咕咕哝哝抱怨孩子们。
A decrepit old man sat on a park bench.一位年迈体衰的老人坐在公园的长椅上。
Holding her painful back, she sat down gingerly on the bench.她用手按着疼痛的背部，小心翼翼地坐在长椅上。
Chairs, stools, sofas and benches are different types of seat.
He was sitting alone by a window with a weird contraption on the bench in front of him.

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bench
verb[ T ]
uk /bentʃ/ us /bentʃ/
US
to not allow someone to take part in a sports game or playground activity, as a punishment or because they are injured: 把（场上队员）换下；罚（场上队员）下场；不让（队员）上场
The coach benched his star pitcher for skipping practice.教练不让明星投手上场，因为他训练缺席。
to benchpress: 仰卧推举，卧推
He looks like he could bench 400 pounds.他看起来似乎可以仰卧推举起400磅的杠铃。

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debar someone from something/doing something
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deny something to someone
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non-valid
off-limits
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unapproved
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bench | American Dictionary

bench
noun[ C ]
us/bentʃ/
a long seat for two or more people, often of wood and usually used outside:
a park bench
The bench is a court of law, or the place where a judge or judges sit in court:
Face the bench when you are talking, Mr. Smith.

Examples of bench

bench
Fittings: the classroom incorporated six sliding doors, each 2.4m square, and specially designed computer benches and a white-board support.
The government had no opponents, whether within their own party or on the opposite benches, who could block the march of legislation.
In these photos rows of men sat neatly on benches and on the ground, facing a radio set flanked by somber standing attendants.
200 quently found along the axial lines of a building, in such locations as under stairs, within benches, and cut into floors.
One group of young metal apprentices built the brilliant and complicated metal seating benches of the third floor [15].
Perhaps what we think of as the natural order is reversed: the chorus remains immobile on its benches, while the instrumentalists move about.
The social exclusivity of county benches appears to have changed only slowly.
If we calculate 12 benches at 3 feet each and 18 inches per person, capacity would be ca. 368; 15 benches yield ca. 458.
In addition, the doors are wider and the benches are larger than found in elite residences.
Indeed, the atlantean table benches are perhaps the strongest evidence we have for centralized rule.
Two seedlings of each morphotype were placed in each of four replicate benches of each of the six light treatments.
Trays were watered as needed to maintain moist conditions and randomly relocated on benches within the greenhouse each week.
The large size of the jury means that its benches, set at right angles to the coroner's dais, assume considerable prominence.
The benches represent the autonomy these leaders had once enjoyed, sharing out drink to their fellow-tribesmen and other followers in their own mead-halls.
The walls were straightened, and benches were placed in each room.
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concrete bench
It is an amphitheatre-like setting, with a stage, an open area, and then rows of concretebench seating arranged in a semicircle.
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