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動詞

fence-sit (三人称単数 現在形 fence-sits, 現在分詞 fence-sitting, 過去形および過去分詞形 fence-sat)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic, まれに) To sit on the fence (to remain neutral on a certain topic).
   • 1980, Jane Adamson, Othello As Tragedy: Some Problems of Judgement and Feeling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     My point, therefore, in beginning with what everyone knows are the two main views of Othello (かつ hence Othello) is not to adjudicate between them, nor to dismiss both, nor to fence-sit, but to suggest that each answers to something important in the play – which also means that each underestimates something important as well.