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Examples

They settled down on the sofa to watch the film.他们安静下来坐到沙发上看电影。
The children sat side by side on the sofa watching television.孩子们肩并肩地坐在沙发上看电视。
I sat down on the sofa next to Barbara.我挨着芭芭拉在沙发上坐了下来。
I just want to get home and stretch out on the sofa.我只想回家摊开四肢舒舒服服地躺在沙发上。
The children had smeared peanut butter all over the sofa.孩子们把花生酱抹得沙发上到处都是。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chairs & seats
-seater
armchair
armrest
banquette
bar stool
beach chair
booster seat
front seat
gallery
high chair
living room suite
lounger
perch
sag bag
seating
settee
shooting stick
stall
stool
window seat

sofa | American Dictionary

sofa
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsoʊ·fə/
a long, soft seat with a back and usually arms, large enough for two or more people to sit on; a couch

Examples of sofa

sofa
In these images and stories, the sofa was sometimes about the dangers of luxury and seduction.
The closest approximation of this circumstance in monolingual language production is the existence of synonym pairs such as sofa and couch.
Why were they not the natural occupants of the sofa, the platform of debauched and exotic sexuality?
Work is now so split that the architect places the window, the garden designer the tree and the interior designer the sofa.
The lobby of the sheltered housing project symbolises its public image; it is spacious, air-conditioned and well decorated, with low sofas and matching tables.
The sofa was puffy and soft, a delight in an age that increasingly put a premium on physical comfort.
So much more than just an upholstered bench, the sofa was often singled out for its particularly republic-threatening properties.
Take the sofa, if you happen to be sitting on one.
Would you please put the cushion on the sofa?
He comes to the door while "we" are vegging out the next morning on the sofa (2, line 7), thus encroaching on the students' territory.
It revolutionised all aspects of life, from the position of sofas to the cultural outlooks of (almost) everyone.
The first sheet had a picture of a fish, a sofa, a cake, and a cricket bat.
The first sheet had a picture of a (metal) nail, a (finger) nail, a sofa, and a rabbit.
Venus on her sofa suggests the existence in the nineteenth century of a sense of white women's bodily passion.
We had no beds and sofas then, only blankets.
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