| 单词 | to fill a seat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fill a seat 8. To hold or occupy (a position); to discharge the duties of (an office, place, post, etc.). In to fill a chair, to fill a place, to fill a seat, etc. with mixture of sense 7. So †to fill the time: to do what is wanted at the time. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > position or job > [verb (transitive)] holdc1000 occupyc1375 fillc1475 society > authority > office > [verb (transitive)] > hold an office occupyc1375 fillc1475 holdc1475 furnish1576 the world > action or operation > doing > act or do [verb (intransitive)] > do what is wanted at the time to fill the timea1616 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 1 Þe pope..filliþ not in dede, ne in word, þe office of Petir in ȝerþ. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. ii. 69 I fill a place I know't. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vii. 33 In fine, deliuers me to fill the time, Her selfe most chastly absent. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 131 Thus make they Kings to fill the Regal Seat. View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 2. ⁋1 He fills the Chair at a Quarter-Session. 1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. II. 105 His assiduity in filling the duties of each [employment]. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV xv. 78 They were not made in the real world to fill A busy character in the dull scene. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 608 Perth..filling the great place of Chancellor. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 216 Stamford, like Lincoln..fills a prominent place in the wars of Edward. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 49 Who fills the Chair of Chemistry at Athens. 1885 Law Times 79 170/2 The post which is now filled by Mr. Ilbert. < as lemmas |
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