| 词汇 | sit-on |
| 释义 | sit on somethingphrasal verb with sitverbuk /sɪt/ us /sɪt/present participlesitting | past tense and past participlesat informal (DELAY)to delay taking action about something: 拖延，延迟 The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.公司将我的信搁置了数周，没有处理我的投诉。 Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock hold up inefficiency inefficiently kept kick push raincheck retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve sit spin stall (KEEP SECRET)mainly disapproving to prevent people from knowing a piece of information: 对…保密，不让别人知道… The city council will presumably sit on the report until after the election.市政府大概在选举前不想公布这份报告的内容。 Secrecy and privacy anonymity anonymization anonymize anonymous anonymously cryptography data protection dead men tell no talesidiom dissimulate dissimulation official secret on the quietidiom privacy privacy settings private under wrapsidiom undisclosed unrevealed unsourced unstated (IN BASEBALL)US in baseball, to prepare yourself to hit a particular kind of throw that you expect the pitcher(= the player who throws the ball) to make, and only try to hit that kind of throw: The hitter was sitting on a fastball. Baseball & rounders 1-2-3 inning ahead alley around the hornidiom at bat bomb curve heater hit the ball out of the parkidiom hitting coach home plate home stand horsehide sac spitter split-fingered fastball splitter squeeze play starting pitcher swing sit on someonephrasal verb with sitverbuk /sɪt/ us /sɪt/present participlesitting | past tense and past participlesat informal to force someone to be silent or not to do something: 管制（某人），压制（某人） The boss is going to sit on him to make sure he says nothing.老板要向他施压，确保他保持沉默。 Limiting and restricting anti-libertarian armlock boundary box someone out box someone/something in crippling cripplingly crowd curb curtail keep (herself) to herselfidiom keep something down limit limitation limitative suffocatingly tempered tie someone down tie someone up uncrippled sit on something | American Dictionarysit on somethingphrasal verb with sitverbus/sɪt/ (NOT USE)to not use something: The supervisors want a tax increase for law enforcement when they are sitting on a huge budget surplus. It's hard to imagine how the government could have sat on this information. sit on somethingphrasal verb with sitverbus/sɪt/ (BE A MEMBER)to be a member of an official group: Our senator sits on the subcommittee for foreign relations. |
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