| 单词 | to sit up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sit up to sit up I. Senses directly implying a sitting posture.Senses 1a and 2 show considerable overlap, since the action may be viewed as either beginning or continuing. 1. a. intransitive. To raise one's body from a recumbent to a sitting posture, or from a leaning or slouching posture to an upright sitting posture. Also of an animal: to balance on the hindquarters, with the front paws raised and the body upright.In quot. c1225 transitive (passive). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit up or upright to sit upOE the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > come to a sitting posture to sit upOE sita1400 to sit down1859 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xlviii. 2 Ða cydde man Ysrahele þæt Iosep his suna wær [probably read wære] cumen; þa elnode he hine & sæt up. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) l. 585 Þa ha weren iseten up, sehen as þe engles..smireden hire wunden. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3683 ‘Fader,’ he said, ‘sitt vp and ete’. a1500 St. Jerome (Lamb.) in Anglia (1880) 3 343 He satt up and cryed ‘I shall not..thow lyest’. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke vii. f. lxxxv I saye vnto the, aryse. And the deed sate vp. 1757 Tryal of Lady Allurea Luxury 61 Sometimes I am somewhat indolent after Sitting up, and find a little Palpitation at my Heart. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 97 She heard, she moved,..and up she sat. 1854 J. G. Wood Sketches Animal Life 98 Four cats..had taught themselves the art of begging like a dog... They waited until they saw the dog sit up in the begging position, and immediately assumed the same attitude. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxvii Sonia sat up excitedly. ‘I will not have a doctor,’ she exclaimed. 1965 D. G. Dodds Wild Captives 53 The mouse sits up, pawing at the giant. 1996 P. Morgan et al. Female Body 14 Mom was right when she told us to sit up. Absolutely correct when she told us not to slouch. 1998 A. Geras Silent Snow, Secret Snow 105 Carlo sat up in bed and hugged his knees through the duvet. 2013 M. Lawson Deaths vi. 171 ‘Sit up straight! It's bad for your digestion, eating like that.’ b. intransitive. to sit up and beg: (originally, of a dog) to balance on the hindquarters with the front paws raised expectantly in the hope of a reward (cf. beg v. 2i); (subsequently figurative) to be compliant, pliable, or subservient. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > be easy to deal with or control to sit up and beg1869 the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [adjective] > upright or erect upstandingc1000 standing1180 erectc1386 upright1398 standard1538 top-right1562 steya1586 upstraight1598 struttinga1643 straight reacheda1649 surrect1692 stand-up1749 stick-up1808 to sit up and beg1869 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > up or upright > specific miscellaneous to sit up and beg1869 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [adjective] > attitude of vehicles (planes, bikes, etc.) to sit up and beg1869 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [verb (intransitive)] > bicycle > assume attitude to sit up and beg1869 1869 Quiver 17 Apr. 447/2 He [sc. a dog] found it just as long to the next stone that way, so in despair he sat up and—begged. 1911 Times 6 July 16/6 His second service is not formidable, and..he could not make friends with the half-volleys; to Mr. Dixon they sit up and beg. 1917 R. Barnes Let. 20 July in M. Gilbert W. S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. i. 105 Pile up the guns & shells & we will make the Hun sit up & beg, but we haven't got enough yet. 1935 G. Stein Let. in E. Burns & U. E. Dydo Lett. Gertrude Stein & Thornton Wilder (1996) App. V. 365 For the first time in his life Basket had sat up and begged and not gotten what he asked he was disillusioned and..he has never been quite the same trusting dog since. 1978 Times 4 July 19/4 Ramirez tucked away a net cord by his opponent that sat up and simply begged. 2017 @JeanieOsc 18 July in twitter.com (accessed 7 Dec. 2017) And when he whistles Russia is going to sit up and beg! Uh huh. Yeah, sure. c. intransitive. to make (a person) sit up: to astonish, startle, or have a powerful effect on (a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] gloppena1250 abavea1400 ferlya1400 forferlya1400 supprisec1405 stonish1488 surprend1549 stagger1556 thunderbolta1586 admire1598 startle1598 thunderstrike1613 siderate1623 dumbfound1653 surprise1655 stammer1656 strange1657 astartlea1680 dumbfounder1710 knock1715 to take aback1751 flabbergast1773 to take back1796 stagnate1829 to put aback1833 to make (a person) sit up1878 to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1884 transmogrify1887 rock1947 to flip out1964 1878 City Jackdaw 29 Mar. 153/2 We'll make 'em sit up one of these days, I tell you. 1889 Daily News 23 July 5 When her [George Sand's] novels first made the world ‘sit up’, if we may venture to use such a phrase. 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William iii. 60 Crumbs! he'd jolly well make people sit up. 2017 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 5 That made me sit up and think I really need to do something. d. intransitive. to sit up and take notice: (originally, of a sick person) to raise oneself up from a prostrate position and pay attention to one's surroundings; (now usually) to become suddenly interested, to start paying attention. Also with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > pay attention [phrase] to nim or take yemec1175 to bow the eyec1230 give tenta1300 to take (nim) heed13.. to have respect toa1398 to have an eye to (also in)1425 to give, pay heed (to)?1504 to make reckoning of1525 to take notice1573 to take into consideration1652 to return to our sheep1871 to sit up and take notice1886 1886 Weekly New Era (Lancaster, Pa.) 17 July 5/2 By the time she is able to sit up and take notice and get from the bed to the fire, she surrounds herself with every treatise she can find on the proper method of training infants. 1909 N.Y. Evening Post 6 Mar. 1/3 The crowd that fell upon Washington was of such a size that the District authorities sat up and took serious notice. 1940 K. Furse Hearts & Pomegranates xxviii. 387 I was amused to see that women who had succumbed and been carried to the lamp-post islands by St. John Ambulance stretcher-bearers, could sit up and take notice as we passed. 1954 A. Huxley Let. 18 Jan. (1969) 694 If you want them to sit up and take notice, prepare your way with a barrage of heavy guns from respectable institutions. 1968 H. C. Rae Few Small Bones ii. viii. 141 Look at him..stuffed full of pet theories, praying I'll sit up and take notice of him. 2005 N.Y. Times 10 Apr. 15/1 The competition for resources and the health of the planet is causing many analysts and political leaders to sit up and take notice. 2. a. intransitive. To be in a sitting posture, in contrast to lying down. Frequently in to sit up and take nourishment (said of patients who have reached a particular stage of convalescence). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > upright to sit upa1535 to sit up1848 to sit up like Jacky1918 to sit tall1976 the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] wholeeOE botenc1225 cover1297 amendc1325 recovera1375 warisha1386 recovera1387 healc1390 recurec1400 soundc1402 mendc1440 convalesce1483 guarish1489 restore1494 refete?a1505 revert1531 to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589 cure1597 recruit1644 to perk upa1656 retrieve1675 to pick up1740 to leave one's bed1742 to sit up and take nourishment1796 to get round1798 to come round1818 to pull through1830 rally1831 to fetch round1870 to mend up1877 to pull round1889 recoup1896 recuperate1897 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xviii. sig. D.viii Some haue I sene euyn in their last sycknes sytte vp in theyr death bed vnderproppted wt pillous take ther play feloes to them & comfort them selfe wyth cardes. 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 112. 1727 The Lieut. Gen. doth now, blessed be God, begin to sit up and recover. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) To sit up in one's Bed, se tenir assis dans son Lit. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 194 He may sometimes sit up in bed for a short space. 1796 L. Ussher Let. 18 May in E. Ussher et al. Extracts Lett. (1812) 85 She is able to sit up and take nourishment, and I trust, in a little time, will be enabled to leave her room. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xxvii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 375 The pale wasted form in the easy-chair (for he sat up to the last). 1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike lv. 311 ‘How's Adair?’.. ‘Sitting up and taking nourishment once more.’ 2001 N. H. Wilson Mountain Pose xxv. 175 She was sitting up in bed reading one of the teen magazines. 2003 G. Carter Survivor ii. 31 I..headed for church, determined to preach as long as I had breath and could still sit up and take nourishment. b. intransitive. To sit habitually with an upright posture, instead of leaning or slouching.to sit up like Jacky: see Jacky n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > upright to sit upa1535 to sit up1848 to sit up like Jacky1918 to sit tall1976 1848 Mass. Teacher 15 July 214 Shall he be contented if his boys sit up erect, make not too much noise with their boots, and ‘answer up’ well on examination day? 1871 M. L. Byrn Myst. of Med. Explained 71 Learn to sit up, young man..; for the unnatural position which you have assumed will never make you a good writer. 2010 S. Cowley Getting Buggers to Behave (ed. 4) xi. 175 Get them to sit up straight, cross their legs, fold their arms, and keep themselves to themselves. c. intransitive. To remain in a seat during an overnight train journey, in contrast to taking a sleeper. Now rare or merged with sense 5a. ΚΠ 1947 L. P. Hartley Eustace & Hilda i. ix. 162 ‘But could you cancel your wagon-lit ticket?’ ‘I don't need to. I'm going to sit up.’ 1967 O. Wynd Walk Softly vii. 107 ‘You've got a sleeper reservation?’ ‘No, I was going to sit up.’ 2015 S. Bradley Railways viii. Each train also includes ordinary saloon coaches, for those prepared to sit up all night in exchange for a lower fare. 3. transitive. To place (a person, a doll, etc.) in an upright sitting posture. ΚΠ 1748 Proc. Old Bailey 16 Jan. 32 They sat him up, his Legs across the Saddle, and his Body lay over the Horse's Mane. 1895 Daily News 9 Oct. 7/5 The man is so bad that we can't sit him up. 1975 E. L. Doctorow Ragtime (1985) viii. 53 She took Nesbit's hands and sat her up on the edge of the bed. 1998 G. Adams Casualty (BBC TV Production draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 6. 101 stage direct. The radiographer moves straight in on Lucy, sits her up and puts a board behind her back. 2014 J. Green Serpent's Egg 51 Sitting the doll up in the basket. 4. intransitive. U.S. regional. To draw one's chair close to the table in order to join in a meal. ΚΠ 1843 B. R. Hall New Purchase I. ix. 64 She sung out the ordinary summons: ‘Well! come, sit up.’ 1856 S. Warner Hills of Shatemuc xvi. 162 ‘Will you sit up, cousin?’..: the meaning of the request being that he should move his chair up to the table. 1923 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Mar. 133/1 A demure little Mennonite maid..will invite you cordially to ‘sit up’ to a table arrayed with the wealth of cup cheese and pot cheese and sugar cakes. 1982 J. Brooks Quicksand & Cactus 327 You've timed it just right. We're just ready to sit up. Come and join us. II. Extended senses. 5. a. intransitive. To defer the hour for retiring to bed until late. Also: to wait up for; to stay awake through the night (or some part of it) with a person. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > intentionally watchc1000 to sit upc1450 stay1526 to burn (etc.) the midnight oil1635 to set up1697 to wake it1766 to watch up1852 to wait up1855 to stop up1857 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)] > stay up or out of bed during the night wakec900 to sit upc1450 stay1526 to set up1697 to wake it1766 to watch up1852 to stop up1857 c1450 How Wise Man tauȝt Sonne (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 50 Sonne, sitte not up at euen to longe. 1472 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 24 (MED) William, servaunt of Herry Couper, is a ryotter on nyghtes, sittyng up at uncovable tyme. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 10 Let the Nurse this night sit vp with you. View more context for this quotation 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal ii. 19 I sate up two whole nights in composing this Air. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 9 Mar. (1948) I. 212 The surgeon sat up with him: he is asleep again. 1786 J. Woodforde Diary 18 Feb. (1926) II. 228 The Captain..did not return till 12 at Night, just as I was going to bed after sitting up for him till that time. 1869 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 15 Nov. (1956) V. 67 I admire your courage and endurance in sitting up for the meteors. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 86 They sat up talking till far into the night. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xi. 174 ‘You oughtn't to have sat up for me,’ he said, with tender reproachfulness. 2000 J. Hahn in Y. Chang & J. Teo Capsule 18, I have also sat up all night comforting them. b. intransitive. English regional (north-western), U.S. regional, Caribbean, and South African. To stay up for part of the night (with a person) as a sign of or during courtship; to keep company with. Cf. sense 17a. [With South African use compare Afrikaans opsit (see opsit v.).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)] > sit up late as method of courtship opsit1880 to sit up1880 1878 H. A. Roche On Trek in Transvaal 136 The question of questions is, whether she will ‘sit up and keep company with him!’ If she has consented to do this she has virtually consented to ‘sit up’ with him as long as they both shall live.] 1880 J. Nixon Among Boers ix. 214 I have often been curious to know how the young ‘vrijer’, or lover, manages to make known to the fair one his wish to ‘opzit’, or sit up, for the purpose of courting. 1893 West Cumberland Times (Holiday No.) 6/2 (E.D.D.) The custom being for the lad to sit up with the lass. 1951 L. Craig Singing Hills 99 Then he asked if he could sit up with me that night. He was merely asking for a date so I said yes. 1961 D. Rooke Lover for Estelle 36 He had solemnly shown a candle which he carried in his pocket as a hint to Estelle that they should sit up together that night. 1974 Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 29 Mar. 12 Clinton, you've been sitting up with Nellie..an car riding and nothings come of it. 2014 D. Boling Undesirables xxix. 234 He wanted to sit up with me. He had come to respect our ways and knew my parents would appreciate this as proof he wanted to be one of us. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > receive visitors to sit up1777 receive1830 1777 in H. E. Busteed Echoes Old Calcutta (1888) vi. 136 Lady Impey sits up with Mrs. Hastings; vulgo toad-eating. 1780 I. Munro Narr. Milit. Operat. (1789) 56 When a young lady arrives at Madras she must, in a few days afterwards, sit up to receive company, attended by some beau as master of the ceremonies, which perhaps continues for a week. 1795 T. Munro Let. 15 Sept. in G. R. Gleig Life Sir Thomas Munro (1830) I. 169 I am not to be forced to sit up, and receive male or female visitors. 7. intransitive. Golf. Of a ball: to be unobstructed by the lie of the land; to be easy to hit. Later also in other sports: (of a bouncing ball) to rise up higher than usual, esp. so as to present an easy target. ΚΠ 1902 Golf Illustr. 31 Jan. 88/2 The turf in general is of the short springy sort, upon which a golf ball ‘sits up’ well. 1912 Country Life 1 June 839/2 The ball sits up absolutely asking to be hit. 1958 Irish Times 11 Apr. 2/6 The ball sat up so well that he was able to reach the green with a spoon. 1983 Observer 1 May 37/3 When the ball sat up outside his off stump he cut as if it were harvest-time. 1998 C. Harmon & J. Andrisani Butch Harmon's Playing Lessons 36 You were right to try to finesse the ball from sand. The lie was level and the ball was sitting up. 2009 A. Agassi Open xxvi. 344 On grass my newly augmented topspin makes the ball sit up like a helium balloon. < as lemmas |
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