pew的意思|pew的解释-里氏词典

pew [pju:]

n. 教堂长椅, 会众, 座位

vt. 为(教堂)安装座位, 把...围在一起

pew

[ noun ]
long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
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Pew \Pew\, n. [OE. pewe, OF. puie parapet, balustrade, balcony,
fr. L. podium an elevated place, a jutty, balcony, a parapet
or balcony in the circus, where the emperor and other
distinguished persons sat, Gr. ?, dim. of ?, ?, foot; --
hence the Latin sense of a raised place (orig. as a rest or
support for the foot). See {Foot}, and cf. {Podium}, {Poy}.]
1. One of the compartments in a church which are separated by
low partitions, and have long seats upon which several
persons may sit; -- sometimes called {slip}. Pews were
originally made square, but are now usually long and
narrow.

2. Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall,
formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a
pen; a sheepfold. [Obs.] --Pepys. Milton.

{Pew opener}, an usher in a church. [Eng.] --Dickens.

Pew \Pew\, v. t.
To furnish with pews. [R.] --Ash.

'Mr Benjamin Allen fell fast asleep: while Mr Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from wordly matters by the ingenious process of carving his name on the seat of the pew.'
A cousin from another branch of the family leaned over the pew to speak to the Naquins. "How're y'all," he drawle.
Gary Buchanan, an operations manager for a small supermarket chain, takes a front pew with his wife, Martina. He says B'nai No'ach is quite a departure from the evangelical faith he grew up with.
Members of at least a dozen Roman Catholic inner-city churches were told Saturday that their parishes will close by summer, while others rejoiced upon learning they won't have to sit in someone else's pew.
Jim would genuflect before entering a pew behind the other parishioners, then sit quietly through the Mass.
The longtime and often bitter rivals smiled and shook hands as they took seats in the front pew of St. Andrew Parish Church.
Indeed, seated in the first pew was Edsel Ford II's oldest son, Henry Ford III, who is the seven-year-old great-great-grandson of the first Henry Ford.
Suddenly, he scrambled from the pew and ran toward her, shouting.
"The volume is growing steadily," Anderson said in a telephone interview. "The market has expanded beyond the pew, partly because the product appeal is broader and also because of sociological trends.
Singleton, 62, was allowed to attend services Sunday, but he was forced to sit in a back pew with his dog.
Says growth-stock manager John Sullivan: "Since mid-1989, it has been a growth-stock market, and we have been in the right pew."
They couldn't afford pew rental.
He and his wife, Tamara, sat in the front pew with their other two small children.

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