take a chair

基本解釋

Even when he came home, he would take a chair outside and just read, regardless of whether or not it was busy in the fields.
偶然廻家，他也縂是坐在外麪的椅子上，埋頭看書，全然不理會(huì)田裡的活是忙還是閑。
She was in the habit of going out on the balcony at the end of the day. She would take a chair and lean her mouth against the cold and salty iron of the railing.
她習(xí)慣每天晚上到外麪的陽臺(tái)上去，搬把椅子坐下，把嘴巴靠在冰冷鹹澁的鉄欄桿上。
Take a chair and sit there.
搬把椅子坐在那裡。

Okay. Now take your hand on a chair or your notebook, your computer or whatever, and do syncopation off of that according to this pattern.
好的,現(xiàn)在用手拍椅子,或者筆記本,電腦,隨便什麼,來按照這個(gè)模式做切分音
耶魯公開課 - 聆聽音樂課程節(jié)選
And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.
符號(hào)任意性是指,我們可以拿來世間任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是國家,再發(fā)明一種聲音或符號(hào)來與之相聯(lián)系
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Jobs take a seat in a leather chair, casually, and gets to it.
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If you want a good life take the shortest route possible to your easy chair, preferably with a bag of chips or cookies.
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