seating
seating — 名詞
1. the chairs or other places to sit that a room, building, or vehicle has for peop
座位
場所提供的所有座位
the chairs or other places to sit that a room, building, or vehicle has for people to use.
The new cinema complex has comfortable seating for over four hundred people.
這家新電影院有舒適的座位，可容納超過四百人。
collocation: comfortable seating
Zuri prefers the outdoor seating area at the café on warm Sunday mornings.
Zuri 喜歡那間咖啡館在溫暖週日上午的戶外座位區。
collocation: outdoor seating area
All the seating on the upper bus deck was already taken when they arrived.
巴士上層的所有座位在他們到達時都已經被佔滿了。
Diego checked the stadium's seating chart before buying tickets for the concert.
Diego 在購買演唱會門票之前查詢了體育館的座位表。
The school installed new seating in the library after the renovation last summer.
去年暑假翻新後，學校在圖書館裡安裝了新的座位。
- seats
countable alternative; refers to individual places rather than the whole set.
- chairs
narrower — usually implies moveable individual pieces of furniture.
- places to sit
more general; usable in any context.
文法句型
seating + noun (attributive)
用法筆記
Uncountable — use 'seat' (countable) when referring to one specific place to sit. 'Seating' refers to the collection or arrangement of seats as a whole.
常見錯誤
2. the way that seats are arranged for an event or the decisions about where each p
座位安排
座位如何安排或誰坐在何處的規劃
the way that seats are arranged for an event or the decisions about where each person sits — for example, who sits next to whom at a wedding dinner or in a classroom.
The wedding planner arranged the seating to mix guests from both families at each table.
婚禮策劃人安排座位，讓每桌同時有雙方親友。
collocation: arranged the seating
Padma changed the seating each month so students worked with different classmates.
Padma 每個月都調整座位，讓學生能和不同的同學一起合作。
The conference organisers are still finalising the seating for the awards dinner on Friday.
會議主辦單位仍在確認週五頒獎晚宴的座位安排。
Open seating at the seminar meant early arrivals chose the best spots near the stage.
研討會採自由入座，早到的人可以選擇靠近講台的最佳位置。
Before the banquet, Selim asked about the seating so he could sit near his colleague.
宴會前，Selim 詢問了座位安排，以便能坐在同事旁邊。
- seating plan
a specific diagram or list showing where each person will sit.
- seating arrangement
emphasises the organisation logic rather than the plan document.
文法句型
seating for + event
seating + noun (attributive)
用法筆記
Frequently appears in noun–noun compounds such as 'seating arrangement', 'seating plan', and 'seating chart'. Unlike sense 1, this sense focuses on the organisation of seats rather than the physical seats themselves.