词汇 | at one sitting |
释义 | Idiom at one sitting during a short period of time.A month's supply of that drug taken at one sitting would kill you.I read the book in one sitting and couldn't get to sleep after I finished it. Etymology: based on a restaurant sitting (= a fixed period when a meal is available) at one sittingDuring one uninterrupted period of time. Our teenage sons can finish a whole turkey at one sitting. How much research can you get done at one sitting? at one sittingorin one sittingCOMMON If you do something at one sitting or in one sitting, you do not stop doing it until you have finished it. He sometimes reads a whole novel at one sitting. She can go through a whole box of cookies in one sitting. do something in/at one ˈsittingdo something in one continuous period of activity, without getting up from your chair: I read the book in one sitting. |
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