To look at the dog, you would think he was not worth anything but to sit around and look mean and look for a chance to steal something.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

And there are very few people that you can sit down and speak to for, like, eight hours at a time.

很少有人你可以坐在一起,一次就能聊天聊8个小时。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They don't sit in the box for a while and mull it over and then figure out how to do it.

它们并不会坐在迷笼里,思索问题，然后找到解决的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But there are also others. "We found that girls really need special sit-down sessions sometimes more than the boys do, so we have a program for girls only.

VOA: special.2010.11.11

They would sit around the fire and hang out for two, three hours without saying a word.

他们围坐在篝火边两三个小时，一句话也没说。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We didn't have that in the eight-millimeter days. We had to lug a projector, we had to plug it in to somebody's wall, put up a screen and show it to someone patient enough to sit there for five minutes and watch.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

If he's going to sit there on one chord for that amount of time, it's going to go on for a long period of time.

既然作曲家能放任一个和弦行进这么久，他一定有的是时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"We'll go into a restaurant for instance and previously it was, 'Where can I sit with my back to a wall?

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

And so very frequently, of a Friday evening or a Saturday evening, we'll sit around and drink beer with people of that kind and with remarkable opportunity for somebody like me, cuz I found that I was intrigued by what they were doing.

因此，很多时候，在周五或周六的晚上，我们和这些人会围坐在一起，喝啤酒,这对像我这样的人来说是个很好的机会，因为我对他们的经历很感兴趣。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There's no sit-down restaurants and it seemed like a good opportunity for us."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Similarly, if you're dealing with immature humans and you want your child to get you a beer, you can't just sit, wait for the kid to give you a beer and uncap the bottle " and say, "Excellent. Good. Hugs."

类似的，如果你要训练的是未成年人,如果你想让你的孩子帮你拿一罐啤酒，你就不能只是坐着，等孩子把啤酒拿给你,然后你打开瓶盖,说，“太棒了，来抱一下“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选