英和和英

動詞

sit back (third-person singular simple present sits back, present participle sitting back, simple past and past participle sat back)

1. To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.

   Please just sit back and watch the show.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

     The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.

2. (idiomatic) To relax, to not exert oneself.
   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC‎:

     Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead.

派生語

• sit back on one's heels