sit on sth,sitting, sitting pretty, sitting duck, sitting member/president

Obama is a sitting president now.

The Los Angeles Times leads with a look at how President Obama has "launched an aggressive campaign-style offensive" to garner support for his agenda and make his political opponents seem irrelevant. E-mails are going out to campaign supporters asking them to call members of Congress and the White House is coordinating with grass-roots groups that are running ads targeting Republicans. Obama will even go on The Tonight Show on Thursday, marking the first time that a sitting president will appear on a late-night talk show



George Franklin Grant — the son of former slaves — was a professor of mechanical dentistry at Harvard University who became the first African-American to sit on Harvard's faculty.

The Bank of Korea is also sitting on foreign reserves of $239.7 billion, much larger reserves than it had in 1997, when its banks had borrowed significant amounts of short-term dollars in offshore markets. This time around, Korea's banks have mostly long-term debt.

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sit on sth (KEEP SECRET) phrasal verb INFORMAL MAINLY DISAPPROVING
to prevent people from knowing a piece of information:
The government will presumably sit on the report until after the election.

sitting

n.

1. The act or position of one that sits.
2. A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book.
3. A session, as of a legislature or court.
4. 1. An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation.
   2. The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch.

adj.

1. Incubating a nest of eggs: a sitting hen.
2. Occupying an official position; incumbent.
3. 1. Of or for sitting: a sitting posture; a sitting area in a bus station.
   2. Done or executed while sitting.

sitting member
noun [C] UK FORMAL
the person who is the Member of Parliament for an area at the present time

n. - 入席, 開庭, 就坐
adj. - 坐著的, 在任期中的, 就座的

idioms:

• sitting duck 易被擊中的目標, 易被欺騙的物件
• sitting pretty 處於極為有利的地位
• sitting room 起居室
• sitting target 容易擊中的目標

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sitting duck
n. Informal.

An easy target or victim.

Meaning #1: a defenseless victim
Synonym: easy mark

someone or something that is very easy for an enemy to shoot or attack:
With their bullets all gone, the soldiers were sitting ducks for the enemy.

An easy target, as in If you park in front of a fire hydrant, you're a sitting duck for a ticket. This term alludes to the ease with which a hunter can shoot a duck that remains in one spot, in contrast to one in flight. [First half of 1900s]

sitting target noun [C]
a person or thing that is without protection and easily attacked:
In his open car, the President was a sitting target for assassins.
If you don't lock your doors and windows, you'll be a sitting target for burglars.

• sitting tenant 已經租用房子的人, 合法的租戶

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 座ること, 着席, ひと仕事, 座っている時間, 一回の食事, 開会, 会期, 抱卵, 一回の抱卵数
adj. - 座っている, 抱卵中の, 現職の, 現住の

idioms:

• sitting duck 楽な目標, かも
• sitting duck/target 楽な目標, かも
• sitting pretty 成功して, 有利な立場にいて

In an advantageous position; also, financially well off. For example, The terms of the will left Mary sitting pretty. Although the use of pretty in the sense of "advantageous" is much older, this colloquialism dates only from the early 1900s. It was given extra currency as the title of two different musicals, Sittin' Pretty (M. Moore, 1921) and Sitting Pretty (G. Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, 1924).

• sitting room 居間
• sitting tenant 現在借用中の入居者, 現借家人

IT’S still not clear what caused the two recent crane accidents in New York City, which killed nine people. Across the country, dozens die each year in similar accidents: 72 workers in 2006 alone, the most recent year for which federal figures are available. Yet the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been sitting on crane-safety regulations that could prevent more deaths.

sit on sth (DELAY) phrasal verb INFORMAL
to delay taking action about something:
The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.