Definition of bench in English:

bench

noun bɛn(t)ʃbɛn(t)ʃ

1A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone.
（多指木制或石制）长凳，长椅
a park bench
Example sentencesExamples
- The second miniature shows a couple embracing, seated on a stone bench in front of a starry sky with a disc-shaped moon.
- They finally took a seat on a stone bench located near one tiny pond within the back garden.
- I took a seat on the park bench, and Mina followed suit hesitantly.
- It was smaller than the other gardens on the property - a brick path led to the center of the garden where two stone benches sat under a single tree.
- Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well.
- Spoons clatter, wooden benches scrape against the stone floor.
- Cate straightened herself on the stone bench and sat up, not wanting to attract any unwanted attention.
- Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
- The second-class had wooden seats like park benches and that was it.
- And because young children climb, never put a chair, sofa, bench or even a bookcase near such a window.
- One recent hot afternoon, I was at the East Coast Park sitting on a stone bench all by myself by the beach.
- Once outside, I took a seat on a stone bench near the door.
- Each book is ‘read and released’ into the wild by leaving it on a park bench or airline seat, or passed onto friends.
- In a public space the heart of the garden may be a grouping of chairs, or a stone bench, a small pond or fountain, or even a piece of sculpture.
- I arrived at Piccadilly, and settled down on a stone bench on the outskirts of the square.
- Furniture takes the form of either long, low timber benches, or blond wood chairs, equipped with kneelers.
- Mr Buttery wants to make more of the site, now barely more than a couple of park benches and an engraved stone.
- An elderly man paced back and forth before taking a seat on the park bench, while a light breeze sent trees dancing in the secluded darkness.
- Tall hedges stood with stone benches in front of them.
- Sitting on one of the stone benches, she broke down and cried.
Synonyms
pew, form, long seat, seat, stall, settle
2A long work table in a workshop or laboratory.
（车间的）工作台，（实验室的）试验台
a 19th-century wheelwright's bench
Example sentencesExamples
- All procedures are superbly illustrated for use at the laboratory bench.
- It was like mercury on a laboratory bench, running this way and that, breaking off here, regrouping there, and always deadly.
- I can envisage these pages being photocopied and pinned above laboratory benches around the world.
- In Downie's day, smallpox work was done on wooden benches in the open laboratory.
- But isn't it time the subject was brought from the clouds of science fiction to the debating hall and the laboratory bench?
- Alex had silently walked behind the lady on the laboratory benches, his feet lifting carefully over drying beakers and past a chemistry set.
- The position of the particular tray on the laboratory bench had no apparent effect on germination.
- A sturdy bench vise is invaluable for all kinds of maintenance and gunsmithing chores.
- They either trade or they place trays of good specimens on the benches around the laboratory.
- Field-collected seed was dried for several weeks on a laboratory bench.
- I was working at the bench in the microbiology laboratory of our city's largest hospital.
- This may seem obvious, but anyone who has spent much time at a gunsmith's bench knows there is a natural tendency to put off jobs that are more troublesome.
- The equipment can range from a simple draw bench for intermittent drawing, to multiple draw blocks for continuous operation.
- I went down to the garage just now and he was on Rainman's tool bench.
- Most obviously, it takes up about the space of a tennis court rather than the normal small area on top of a laboratory bench.
- The laboratory instruments are quite easily positioned on lower tables or benches for me to use from a wheelchair.
- My work over forty years at the laboratory bench has all been in fundamental immunology.
- The leaves were saturated with water and different degrees of water deficits were adjusted by exposing the leaves to transpirational water loss on the laboratory bench.
- Later, the new hires will take their places next to their ARS mentors at the laboratory benches.
- I bought a plain old mechanic's bench vise and bolted it to my garage workbench.
- By 1957 the laboratory benches had become so crowded that a cleanup had to be instituted.
- These two aqueous formulations were kept in clear bottles on a laboratory bench under normal laboratory lighting conditions.
- Literally within yards from my laboratory bench, I have had the opportunity to catch sight of the workings of nature.
- Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench.
- This street-roof is studded with glass lenses that shine daylight down to laboratory benches below.
Synonyms
workbench, worktable, table, counter, trestle table, board, work surface, worktop, buffet
3A judge's seat in a law court.
法官席
Example sentencesExamples
- Judge Pat lumbered up to his bench high above the courtroom.
- The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
- Normally in court the magistrate sits behind an elevated bench.
- He stared intently at the magistrates' bench and his defence solicitor throughout the case and spoke only to confirm his name and address.
- In an unprecedented move Magistrate Nicholas got up from the bench and sat at the bar table with the witness and the accused.
- You know I always wonder about the kind of people who sit on these judges benches and pass judgment over people.
1. 3.1the bench The office of judge or magistrate.
  法官职位，治安官职位
  his appointment to the civil bench
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such a wage level is needed to maintain the independence of the judiciary and also to attract skilled jurists to the bench, they argue.
  His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement.
  Can no efforts be made to remove these Justices from the bench?
  Before joining the bench, the Judge was a law professor who was well known for his erudite criticism of legalized abortion.
  Motheral left the bench shortly after she presided over the controversial case last August involving then-State Rep.
  From 1982 to 1987, he took the bench as a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge.
  He was appointed to the federal bench by President Clinton and picked by the Chief Justice to serve on the spy court.
  University law teachers and legal executives may be considered for the bench, he will tell the Woman Lawyer Forum in London.
  So instead, GOP senators are claiming that there's nothing wrong with naming politicized figures to the bench.
  However, there are some people who move from the academic field to practice or the bench.
  Mock court sessions designed to encourage potential magistrates to join the bench will be held in Bradford next month.
  A Leyland magistrate is being forced to retire from the bench against his will because he is too old!
2. 3.2 A judge or magistrate presiding over a particular case.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was committed in custody for sentence to Burnley Crown Court after the bench said the theft merited custody.
  Could a reasonable bench of justices, properly directing themselves, have held on the evidence that the appellant had.
  But on Tuesday, a bench of the high court stayed the single judge order quashing the project.
  An imposing judicial bench of three ‘judges’ and a departmental secretary survey the room.
  The bench apologised to defence solicitors, prosecutor and court staff that it did not start sitting at its scheduled time of 10 am.
  Magistrates threw out this appeal in October, but objectors are currently considering taking the bench's decision to judicial review at the High Court.
  They attended Salford Magistrates Court and persuaded the bench to throw out the council's application.
  The actress appealed against the verdict and a two-judge bench of the high court on Thursday stayed the film's release until another hearing next month.
  The bench of Supreme Court headed by Justice A.H.Ahmadi ordered a C.B.I. probe into the incident.
  Why not arrange that two of the five judges on the initial bench will be overseas judges with commercial experience?
  The sessions will take place at Bradford Magistrates Court in front of a specialised bench of magistrates and a prosecutor, who will be experts in ASBOs.
  Scotland's Lord Justice General recently presided over the bench of five senior judges who heard and ruled on the Lockerbie appeal.
  In a majority decision, the full bench of the Supreme Court quashed the previous suspended sentence.
  In a written decision following the two day hearing the tribunal bench unanimously backed her claim for unfair dismissal.
  Botha granted her leave to appeal against her conviction and she will be back in court before a full bench of three judges next year.
  With the agreement of the defence and prosecution, the case was heard without a jury before a bench of three Scottish judges.
  A petition questioning the controversial appeal decision was upheld by a three judge bench of the Supreme Court in mid December 2002.
  The high court bench upheld the trial court's verdict in October 1997.
  Another bench of Magistrates may, reasonable and rationally, have reached the decision that the appeal should have been dismissed.
  Synonyms
  judges, magistrates, judiciary, judicature
  court, law court, court of justice, bar, courtroom, tribunal, forum
4British A long seat in Parliament for politicians of a specified party.
〈英〉（某一党派或特定立场）议员席
the Conservative benches
保守党议员席。
Example sentencesExamples
- Dr Iddon joined the Labour benches in Parliament in 1997 after serving as a councillor on Bolton council.
- To achieve this, a precondition is that we should have greater diversity on our Parliamentary benches and in our Party as a whole.
- Britain's governing Labour Party had a record number of women on its parliamentary benches.
- He wants to win friends on the Labour back benches and among the party rank-and-file by appearing to be the champion of the poor.
- The opposition benches in parliament are now so full that JVP MPs will be compelled to physically sit on the government side.
- His leadership was cast into doubt again this week, publicly by a former MSP and privately by many who still sit behind him on the Scottish parliament benches.
- One of the odder aspects of the parliament's back benches is how little flexibility there is within the committee system.
- Over there on the Opposition benches is a National Party that has no real purpose.
- I can say in all honesty that I will be in no way surprised if he does not sit on the green benches in the next Parliament.
- The National Assembly now has five new political parties on its benches.
- Hopefully, the shamefulness of the result will ensure the Parliamentary benches are purged for the election to follow.
- Opposition to the government comes from the parties that sit on the Opposition benches in Parliament.
- As an MP his oratorical powers and capacity for mastering legislative detail made him the outstanding parliamentarian on the Labour bench.
- In general, it will be only through the Ombudsman that members of Parliament on the Opposition benches will be able to figure out what the commission is doing.
- A look at the Labour benches in the Dáil shows that the party has the most aged profile of any of the parties.
- We here on the National Party benches do not actually have a great deal of problem with that.
- Yet in a global war, Churchill's coalition government faced not just open rebellion but open contempt from senior parliamentarians on both benches.
- Eight years after the first all-race elections that saw the advent of democracy in South Africa, Suzman is no longer on the benches of Parliament.
- The leader's long goodbye has left too many idle hands on the Tory benches and in the party at large.
- What unreasonable burden does he wish to place on his parliamentary bench now?
1. 4.1 The politicians occupying a specified bench in Parliament.
  议员
  the pledge that was given by the Opposition benches yesterday
  反对党议员昨天所作的承诺。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dr. Singh, who has just returned from his four-day visit to Japan, is expected to dispel some of the concerns raised by the Opposition bench and the Left party, supporting his government.
  The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing.
  A special meeting of the Opposition will also be held on June 22 to discuss the line of action to be taken up by the Opposition bench during the Monsoon session.
  I understand where he is coming from and his very firm view, supported by the Opposition Bench, that the Government cannot at this stage accept that M85 should be discarded.
  This has come from the opposition benches in Parliament, the independence movement in Quebec and the general public as well as the arts community itself.
5the benchA seat at the side of a sports field for coaches, substitutes, and players not taking part in a game.
（体育场地的）教练席；替补队员席；（不参加比赛的）运动员席
he must settle for a place on the substitute's bench
Example sentencesExamples
- Right now, he is the first or second player off the bench.
- With Parke out of action Scott Jackson is likely to return to the bench for Saturday's game.
- The players and coaches jumped off the bench and began running out to the field to join their team in celebration.
- He moved to the bench as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 1998-99 campaign.
- Wasn't the substitute's bench just packed full of World Class players?
- He rarely allowed players to act on their instincts, controlling the game from the bench.
- In the first 19 games, Jackson didn't make it off the bench in seven games and never played more than 18 minutes.
- Which is to say, Jones watched the entire game from the bench.
- Don't send a stud player to the bench because he had a few bad games.
- Glasgow-born Haining had figured in just three previous senior outings after coming off the bench as a substitute.
- Unlike Northampton they couldn't call even better players off the bench to help out.
- The next season, he was back on the field as the bench coach for new Cleveland manager.
- First-choice half back Sean Long endured a nightmare first half at the JJB and should be relegated to the bench when coach David Waite names his side today.
- When a timeout is called, players stroll to the bench and coaches hustle to huddle.
- Low-end players come off the bench as substitutes for starting or injured players.
- With all of the starting spots filled, the Mariners may try to land a hitter who can share time in the outfield and come off the bench late in games.
- Both players have watched the last two games from the bench, sidelined with muscle injuries.
- On some occasions, teams could not even field a full complement of substitutes on their bench.
- A clenched fist pointed at the bench brings the player a rest and the right to put himself back in the game when he is rested.
- Then it was back to the bench for big games at Tottenham and Olympiakos.
6A flat ledge in masonry or on sloping ground.
（砖石建筑的）壁架，（斜坡上的）平台
Example sentencesExamples
- Now on a broad bench, we followed it around to the right, going through a tunnel with snow.
- From the boxes to the benches high up the slope, the focus shifts from dinner to music as the concert begins.
- Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it.
- Hogback ridges impart vertical relief to a rocky bench and commonly form tide pools.
- The trail crosses onto the north side and continues downhill and east along the rocky bench above the creek.

verb bɛn(t)ʃbɛn(t)ʃ

[with object]

1Exhibit (a dog) at a show.
（在展览会上）展览（狗）
Affenpinschers and Afghans were benched side by side
猴㹴和阿富汗猎犬并排展出。
Example sentencesExamples
- All dogs entered by an owner/exhibitor or agent/handler can be benched together.
- About 850 dogs were benched under the canvas, many of them champions of their respective breeds.
- Open Class dogs will not be benched unless space is available.
- In 1888, additional safeguards were added, with the requirement for a duly qualified veterinary surgeon to be at every show, and each dog entered had to be passed on by him before being benched, and again he had to inspect each dog before noon of each day the show was open.
- As he went, he noted that the dogs were benched in such a way that each breed had a section to itself.
2North American Withdraw (a sports player) from play.
〈北美〉把（运动员）从比赛中撤下
the coach benched quarterback Cunningham in favour of McMahon
教练换下了四分卫兰德尔·坎宁安，换上了吉姆·麦克马洪。
Example sentencesExamples
- You have a certain amount of discipline points for the year - with discipline always being a matter of benching a player.
- Watch your team, switch starters and bench players to see what works.
- Inordinate frustration is another reason to bench the player.
- He was benched by the head coach in the third quarter, something that should have been done a couple of weeks ago.
- He realized it could hurt the Vikings if he benched one of his best special teams players when facing one of the top return men in the league.
- These four teams have benched their original starting quarterbacks, and we're just starting the second half of the season.
- At one point, coach Curt Fraser benched him for a game for poor defensive play.
- Coach Evans benched him for all but two minutes in the second quarter.
- Eight teams have benched their opening game quarterback, at least briefly.
- Players who get benched for making turnovers need to have a chance to redeem themselves.
- And the Spurs are famously one of those teams that will bench players who don't play defense.
- Rumor has it that your basketball coach is benching you for the next few games?
- Evidently they've changed the rules so teams no longer have to fake injuries to bench a player.
- One reason benching players is so detrimental to team play is that it eventually fractures unity.
- The team has tried switching personnel, blitzing more often and benching players.
- Still, McRae has not been hesitant to bench players who fail to do the little things.
- My eighth grade coach would have benched me for that much slapping, poking, and grabbing.
- Just as a player is benched, cut, or fined for violations, officials should be held accountable more publicly.
- If the offending player is benched for game, you'll find that things go a lot smoother afterwards.
- His one basketball problem was a struggle to defend the pick-and-roll that forced coach Tom Izzo to bench him in early February.
3
he benched almost 500 pounds
short for bench press (verb)
Example sentencesExamples
- He used to bench 255 pounds, but by the end of the study, he was lifting an amazing 315 pounds!
- He was benching 310 pounds like it was nobody's business.
- If your rate of improvement thus far were projected 15 years down the road, you would be benching 1,400 pounds.
- He watched the boy start benching about 145 pounds, and wondered how cool he would be if he benched more than that.
- If you provide them both with four years of weight training, which one is mostly likely to be able to bench 250 pounds when the program is over?
- If it means going from 200 to 205 for bench presses, then to 215 and 225, I'm gradually achieving the long-term goal of benching 300 pounds.
- He's now up to about 240 pounds and benching about 170.
- In 1987, I won my first gold medal by benching 375 pounds, and have won 16 consecutive golds in the event since.
- He's got the long-hair, the ripped clothing, and he can bench 200 pounds.
- I don't even know if he could bench 300 pounds, which is a bit surprising.

Phrases

on the bench

1Appointed as or in the capacity of a judge or magistrate.
法官职位，治安官职位
he retired after twenty-five years on the bench
他当了25年的法官后退休。
Example sentencesExamples
- Frank worked long hours as a Judge hence his massive output of work on the bench.
- It's not uncommon for conservative judges to become more liberal once they're on the bench.
- The female magistrate had sat on the bench at the applicant's trial for escaping lawful custody.
- He was appointed a magistrate on the Westbury bench in 1980 and became chairman in 1989.
- That two of five judges on the bench thought otherwise should be chilling enough.
2Acting as one of the possible substitutes in a sports match.
（体育比赛中）当替补队员
Robson will again be on the bench
Example sentencesExamples
- It is no use him sitting on the bench just watching the match against Germany.
- He has also been silly enough to make Kumble sit on the bench in many matches.
- When Charlton's season kicked off at the Reebok stadium, the three were all on the bench as substitutes.
- York Wasps coach Garry Atkins said today that Forsyth will start tomorrow's match on the bench.
- Keighley have former Bees centre Tim Marlow on the bench for their Yorkshire One match at home to Selby.
- Louw will start the game on the bench and is likely to feature as a second half substitute.
- Touch wood, I am now injury free, in fact I have been on the bench for the last two matches.
- There must be a time when you have to call it a day, and I don't think I would like to spend the last few matches on the bench.
- With no substitute keeper on the bench, City were forced to put skipper Robert Morgan in goal.
- He is yet to play a first team match for Liverpool, although he has been on the bench on numerous occasions.

Origin

Old English benc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bank and German Bank, also to bank¹.

bank from Middle English:
The very different uses of bank are all ultimately related. The bank beside a river was adopted from a Scandinavian word in the early Middle Ages, and is related to bench (Old English). The earliest use of the bank for a financial institution referred to a money-dealer's counter or table. This came from French or Italian in the late 15th century, but goes back to the same root as the river bank. A bank of oars or of lights represents yet another related form. It came into English in the early Middle Ages from French, and originally meant a bench or a platform to speak from. The bench or platform sense is also found in mountebank (late 16th century) for a charlatan, which comes from Italian monta in banco ‘climb on the bench’ referring to the way they attract a crowd, while a bankrupt (mid 16th century), originally a bankrout takes us back to the ‘counter’ sense. It is from Italian banca rotta, which really means ‘a broken bench’, referring to the breaking up of the traders business at the counter. The word was altered early on in its history in English, through association with Latin ruptus ‘broken’. Yet another word from the same source is banquet (Late Middle English) which comes from the French for ‘little bench’ and was originally a snack rather than a lavish meal.

Rhymes

backbench, blench, clench, Dench, drench, entrench, French, frontbench, quench, stench, tench, trench, wench, wrench

Definition of bench in US English:

bench

nounben(t)SHbɛn(t)ʃ

1A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone.
（多指木制或石制）长凳，长椅
Example sentencesExamples
- Once outside, I took a seat on a stone bench near the door.
- Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well.
- Furniture takes the form of either long, low timber benches, or blond wood chairs, equipped with kneelers.
- I took a seat on the park bench, and Mina followed suit hesitantly.
- Mr Buttery wants to make more of the site, now barely more than a couple of park benches and an engraved stone.
- They finally took a seat on a stone bench located near one tiny pond within the back garden.
- Tall hedges stood with stone benches in front of them.
- Cate straightened herself on the stone bench and sat up, not wanting to attract any unwanted attention.
- It was smaller than the other gardens on the property - a brick path led to the center of the garden where two stone benches sat under a single tree.
- The second-class had wooden seats like park benches and that was it.
- Each book is ‘read and released’ into the wild by leaving it on a park bench or airline seat, or passed onto friends.
- In a public space the heart of the garden may be a grouping of chairs, or a stone bench, a small pond or fountain, or even a piece of sculpture.
- Sitting on one of the stone benches, she broke down and cried.
- Spoons clatter, wooden benches scrape against the stone floor.
- I arrived at Piccadilly, and settled down on a stone bench on the outskirts of the square.
- One recent hot afternoon, I was at the East Coast Park sitting on a stone bench all by myself by the beach.
- And because young children climb, never put a chair, sofa, bench or even a bookcase near such a window.
- The second miniature shows a couple embracing, seated on a stone bench in front of a starry sky with a disc-shaped moon.
- Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
- An elderly man paced back and forth before taking a seat on the park bench, while a light breeze sent trees dancing in the secluded darkness.
Synonyms
pew, form, long seat, seat, stall, settle
2A long, sturdy work table used by a carpenter, mechanic, scientist, or other worker.
Example sentencesExamples
- Later, the new hires will take their places next to their ARS mentors at the laboratory benches.
- They either trade or they place trays of good specimens on the benches around the laboratory.
- Literally within yards from my laboratory bench, I have had the opportunity to catch sight of the workings of nature.
- My work over forty years at the laboratory bench has all been in fundamental immunology.
- Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench.
- I was working at the bench in the microbiology laboratory of our city's largest hospital.
- These two aqueous formulations were kept in clear bottles on a laboratory bench under normal laboratory lighting conditions.
- I can envisage these pages being photocopied and pinned above laboratory benches around the world.
- By 1957 the laboratory benches had become so crowded that a cleanup had to be instituted.
- The equipment can range from a simple draw bench for intermittent drawing, to multiple draw blocks for continuous operation.
- In Downie's day, smallpox work was done on wooden benches in the open laboratory.
- This may seem obvious, but anyone who has spent much time at a gunsmith's bench knows there is a natural tendency to put off jobs that are more troublesome.
- The leaves were saturated with water and different degrees of water deficits were adjusted by exposing the leaves to transpirational water loss on the laboratory bench.
- A sturdy bench vise is invaluable for all kinds of maintenance and gunsmithing chores.
- I bought a plain old mechanic's bench vise and bolted it to my garage workbench.
- Alex had silently walked behind the lady on the laboratory benches, his feet lifting carefully over drying beakers and past a chemistry set.
- All procedures are superbly illustrated for use at the laboratory bench.
- I went down to the garage just now and he was on Rainman's tool bench.
- Most obviously, it takes up about the space of a tennis court rather than the normal small area on top of a laboratory bench.
- But isn't it time the subject was brought from the clouds of science fiction to the debating hall and the laboratory bench?
- The laboratory instruments are quite easily positioned on lower tables or benches for me to use from a wheelchair.
- This street-roof is studded with glass lenses that shine daylight down to laboratory benches below.
- It was like mercury on a laboratory bench, running this way and that, breaking off here, regrouping there, and always deadly.
- The position of the particular tray on the laboratory bench had no apparent effect on germination.
- Field-collected seed was dried for several weeks on a laboratory bench.
Synonyms
workbench, worktable, table, counter, trestle table, board, work surface, worktop, buffet
3A judge's seat in a court.
法官席
Example sentencesExamples
- In an unprecedented move Magistrate Nicholas got up from the bench and sat at the bar table with the witness and the accused.
- Judge Pat lumbered up to his bench high above the courtroom.
- The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
- Normally in court the magistrate sits behind an elevated bench.
- You know I always wonder about the kind of people who sit on these judges benches and pass judgment over people.
- He stared intently at the magistrates' bench and his defence solicitor throughout the case and spoke only to confirm his name and address.
1. 3.1the bench The office of judge or magistrate.
  法官职位，治安官职位
  his appointment to the civil bench
  Example sentencesExamples
  Motheral left the bench shortly after she presided over the controversial case last August involving then-State Rep.
  However, there are some people who move from the academic field to practice or the bench.
  Can no efforts be made to remove these Justices from the bench?
  A Leyland magistrate is being forced to retire from the bench against his will because he is too old!
  So instead, GOP senators are claiming that there's nothing wrong with naming politicized figures to the bench.
  His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement.
  Before joining the bench, the Judge was a law professor who was well known for his erudite criticism of legalized abortion.
  University law teachers and legal executives may be considered for the bench, he will tell the Woman Lawyer Forum in London.
  Such a wage level is needed to maintain the independence of the judiciary and also to attract skilled jurists to the bench, they argue.
  Mock court sessions designed to encourage potential magistrates to join the bench will be held in Bradford next month.
  He was appointed to the federal bench by President Clinton and picked by the Chief Justice to serve on the spy court.
  From 1982 to 1987, he took the bench as a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge.
2. 3.2 Judges or magistrates collectively.
  总称法官，治安官
  rulings from the bench
  Example sentencesExamples
  The actress appealed against the verdict and a two-judge bench of the high court on Thursday stayed the film's release until another hearing next month.
  A petition questioning the controversial appeal decision was upheld by a three judge bench of the Supreme Court in mid December 2002.
  But on Tuesday, a bench of the high court stayed the single judge order quashing the project.
  The high court bench upheld the trial court's verdict in October 1997.
  Why not arrange that two of the five judges on the initial bench will be overseas judges with commercial experience?
  The bench apologised to defence solicitors, prosecutor and court staff that it did not start sitting at its scheduled time of 10 am.
  With the agreement of the defence and prosecution, the case was heard without a jury before a bench of three Scottish judges.
  Could a reasonable bench of justices, properly directing themselves, have held on the evidence that the appellant had.
  In a written decision following the two day hearing the tribunal bench unanimously backed her claim for unfair dismissal.
  Another bench of Magistrates may, reasonable and rationally, have reached the decision that the appeal should have been dismissed.
  They attended Salford Magistrates Court and persuaded the bench to throw out the council's application.
  In a majority decision, the full bench of the Supreme Court quashed the previous suspended sentence.
  He was committed in custody for sentence to Burnley Crown Court after the bench said the theft merited custody.
  An imposing judicial bench of three ‘judges’ and a departmental secretary survey the room.
  The sessions will take place at Bradford Magistrates Court in front of a specialised bench of magistrates and a prosecutor, who will be experts in ASBOs.
  The bench of Supreme Court headed by Justice A.H.Ahmadi ordered a C.B.I. probe into the incident.
  Magistrates threw out this appeal in October, but objectors are currently considering taking the bench's decision to judicial review at the High Court.
  Scotland's Lord Justice General recently presided over the bench of five senior judges who heard and ruled on the Lockerbie appeal.
  Botha granted her leave to appeal against her conviction and she will be back in court before a full bench of three judges next year.
  Synonyms
  judges, magistrates, judiciary, judicature
4British A seat in Parliament for politicians of a specified party or position.
〈英〉（某一党派或特定立场）议员席
the Conservative benches
保守党议员席。
the Opposition benches
Example sentencesExamples
- Dr Iddon joined the Labour benches in Parliament in 1997 after serving as a councillor on Bolton council.
- The National Assembly now has five new political parties on its benches.
- The opposition benches in parliament are now so full that JVP MPs will be compelled to physically sit on the government side.
- Hopefully, the shamefulness of the result will ensure the Parliamentary benches are purged for the election to follow.
- Yet in a global war, Churchill's coalition government faced not just open rebellion but open contempt from senior parliamentarians on both benches.
- Opposition to the government comes from the parties that sit on the Opposition benches in Parliament.
- To achieve this, a precondition is that we should have greater diversity on our Parliamentary benches and in our Party as a whole.
- One of the odder aspects of the parliament's back benches is how little flexibility there is within the committee system.
- I can say in all honesty that I will be in no way surprised if he does not sit on the green benches in the next Parliament.
- He wants to win friends on the Labour back benches and among the party rank-and-file by appearing to be the champion of the poor.
- His leadership was cast into doubt again this week, publicly by a former MSP and privately by many who still sit behind him on the Scottish parliament benches.
- The leader's long goodbye has left too many idle hands on the Tory benches and in the party at large.
- In general, it will be only through the Ombudsman that members of Parliament on the Opposition benches will be able to figure out what the commission is doing.
- Britain's governing Labour Party had a record number of women on its parliamentary benches.
- Eight years after the first all-race elections that saw the advent of democracy in South Africa, Suzman is no longer on the benches of Parliament.
- What unreasonable burden does he wish to place on his parliamentary bench now?
- As an MP his oratorical powers and capacity for mastering legislative detail made him the outstanding parliamentarian on the Labour bench.
- Over there on the Opposition benches is a National Party that has no real purpose.
- We here on the National Party benches do not actually have a great deal of problem with that.
- A look at the Labour benches in the Dáil shows that the party has the most aged profile of any of the parties.
1. 4.1 The politicians occupying a specific seat in Parliament.
  议员
  the pledge that was given by the Opposition benches yesterday
  反对党议员昨天所作的承诺。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A special meeting of the Opposition will also be held on June 22 to discuss the line of action to be taken up by the Opposition bench during the Monsoon session.
  This has come from the opposition benches in Parliament, the independence movement in Quebec and the general public as well as the arts community itself.
  The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing.
  I understand where he is coming from and his very firm view, supported by the Opposition Bench, that the Government cannot at this stage accept that M85 should be discarded.
  Dr. Singh, who has just returned from his four-day visit to Japan, is expected to dispel some of the concerns raised by the Opposition bench and the Left party, supporting his government.
5the benchA seat on which sports coaches and players sit during a game when they are not playing.
Example sentencesExamples
- With all of the starting spots filled, the Mariners may try to land a hitter who can share time in the outfield and come off the bench late in games.
- On some occasions, teams could not even field a full complement of substitutes on their bench.
- The players and coaches jumped off the bench and began running out to the field to join their team in celebration.
- In the first 19 games, Jackson didn't make it off the bench in seven games and never played more than 18 minutes.
- Right now, he is the first or second player off the bench.
- Unlike Northampton they couldn't call even better players off the bench to help out.
- Both players have watched the last two games from the bench, sidelined with muscle injuries.
- Low-end players come off the bench as substitutes for starting or injured players.
- The next season, he was back on the field as the bench coach for new Cleveland manager.
- Don't send a stud player to the bench because he had a few bad games.
- First-choice half back Sean Long endured a nightmare first half at the JJB and should be relegated to the bench when coach David Waite names his side today.
- Then it was back to the bench for big games at Tottenham and Olympiakos.
- Wasn't the substitute's bench just packed full of World Class players?
- With Parke out of action Scott Jackson is likely to return to the bench for Saturday's game.
- A clenched fist pointed at the bench brings the player a rest and the right to put himself back in the game when he is rested.
- Which is to say, Jones watched the entire game from the bench.
- He rarely allowed players to act on their instincts, controlling the game from the bench.
- When a timeout is called, players stroll to the bench and coaches hustle to huddle.
- He moved to the bench as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 1998-99 campaign.
- Glasgow-born Haining had figured in just three previous senior outings after coming off the bench as a substitute.
6A flat ledge in masonry or on sloping ground.
（砖石建筑的）壁架，（斜坡上的）平台
Example sentencesExamples
- Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it.
- From the boxes to the benches high up the slope, the focus shifts from dinner to music as the concert begins.
- Now on a broad bench, we followed it around to the right, going through a tunnel with snow.
- The trail crosses onto the north side and continues downhill and east along the rocky bench above the creek.
- Hogback ridges impart vertical relief to a rocky bench and commonly form tide pools.

verbben(t)SHbɛn(t)ʃ

[with object]

1Exhibit (a dog) at a show.
（在展览会上）展览（狗）
Affenpinschers and Afghans were benched side by side
猴㹴和阿富汗猎犬并排展出。
Example sentencesExamples
- All dogs entered by an owner/exhibitor or agent/handler can be benched together.
- As he went, he noted that the dogs were benched in such a way that each breed had a section to itself.
- In 1888, additional safeguards were added, with the requirement for a duly qualified veterinary surgeon to be at every show, and each dog entered had to be passed on by him before being benched, and again he had to inspect each dog before noon of each day the show was open.
- About 850 dogs were benched under the canvas, many of them champions of their respective breeds.
- Open Class dogs will not be benched unless space is available.
2North American Withdraw (a sports player) from play; substitute.
〈北美〉把（运动员）从比赛中撤下
the coach benched quarterback Randall Cunningham in favor of Jim McMahon
教练换下了四分卫兰德尔·坎宁安，换上了吉姆·麦克马洪。
Example sentencesExamples
- At one point, coach Curt Fraser benched him for a game for poor defensive play.
- One reason benching players is so detrimental to team play is that it eventually fractures unity.
- Just as a player is benched, cut, or fined for violations, officials should be held accountable more publicly.
- Inordinate frustration is another reason to bench the player.
- He realized it could hurt the Vikings if he benched one of his best special teams players when facing one of the top return men in the league.
- Eight teams have benched their opening game quarterback, at least briefly.
- Rumor has it that your basketball coach is benching you for the next few games?
- The team has tried switching personnel, blitzing more often and benching players.
- These four teams have benched their original starting quarterbacks, and we're just starting the second half of the season.
- If the offending player is benched for game, you'll find that things go a lot smoother afterwards.
- He was benched by the head coach in the third quarter, something that should have been done a couple of weeks ago.
- Players who get benched for making turnovers need to have a chance to redeem themselves.
- Still, McRae has not been hesitant to bench players who fail to do the little things.
- My eighth grade coach would have benched me for that much slapping, poking, and grabbing.
- Evidently they've changed the rules so teams no longer have to fake injuries to bench a player.
- Coach Evans benched him for all but two minutes in the second quarter.
- You have a certain amount of discipline points for the year - with discipline always being a matter of benching a player.
- His one basketball problem was a struggle to defend the pick-and-roll that forced coach Tom Izzo to bench him in early February.
- And the Spurs are famously one of those teams that will bench players who don't play defense.
- Watch your team, switch starters and bench players to see what works.
3
he benched almost 500 pounds
short for bench press (verb)
Example sentencesExamples
- He watched the boy start benching about 145 pounds, and wondered how cool he would be if he benched more than that.
- I don't even know if he could bench 300 pounds, which is a bit surprising.
- If you provide them both with four years of weight training, which one is mostly likely to be able to bench 250 pounds when the program is over?
- He used to bench 255 pounds, but by the end of the study, he was lifting an amazing 315 pounds!
- If it means going from 200 to 205 for bench presses, then to 215 and 225, I'm gradually achieving the long-term goal of benching 300 pounds.
- He was benching 310 pounds like it was nobody's business.
- He's got the long-hair, the ripped clothing, and he can bench 200 pounds.
- If your rate of improvement thus far were projected 15 years down the road, you would be benching 1,400 pounds.
- He's now up to about 240 pounds and benching about 170.
- In 1987, I won my first gold medal by benching 375 pounds, and have won 16 consecutive golds in the event since.

Phrases

on the bench

1Appointed as or in the capacity of a judge or magistrate.
法官职位，治安官职位
he retired after twenty-five years on the bench
他当了25年的法官后退休。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's not uncommon for conservative judges to become more liberal once they're on the bench.
- He was appointed a magistrate on the Westbury bench in 1980 and became chairman in 1989.
- The female magistrate had sat on the bench at the applicant's trial for escaping lawful custody.
- Frank worked long hours as a Judge hence his massive output of work on the bench.
- That two of five judges on the bench thought otherwise should be chilling enough.
2Acting as one of the possible substitutes in a sports contest.
（体育比赛中）当替补队员
Example sentencesExamples
- There must be a time when you have to call it a day, and I don't think I would like to spend the last few matches on the bench.
- Touch wood, I am now injury free, in fact I have been on the bench for the last two matches.
- When Charlton's season kicked off at the Reebok stadium, the three were all on the bench as substitutes.
- York Wasps coach Garry Atkins said today that Forsyth will start tomorrow's match on the bench.
- He is yet to play a first team match for Liverpool, although he has been on the bench on numerous occasions.
- With no substitute keeper on the bench, City were forced to put skipper Robert Morgan in goal.
- Louw will start the game on the bench and is likely to feature as a second half substitute.
- Keighley have former Bees centre Tim Marlow on the bench for their Yorkshire One match at home to Selby.
- It is no use him sitting on the bench just watching the match against Germany.
- He has also been silly enough to make Kumble sit on the bench in many matches.

Origin

Old English benc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bank and German Bank, also to bank.

词汇	bench
释义	Definition of bench in English: bench noun bɛn(t)ʃbɛn(t)ʃ 1A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone. （多指木制或石制）长凳，长椅 a park bench Example sentencesExamples The second miniature shows a couple embracing, seated on a stone bench in front of a starry sky with a disc-shaped moon. They finally took a seat on a stone bench located near one tiny pond within the back garden. I took a seat on the park bench, and Mina followed suit hesitantly. It was smaller than the other gardens on the property - a brick path led to the center of the garden where two stone benches sat under a single tree. Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well. Spoons clatter, wooden benches scrape against the stone floor. Cate straightened herself on the stone bench and sat up, not wanting to attract any unwanted attention. Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs. The second-class had wooden seats like park benches and that was it. And because young children climb, never put a chair, sofa, bench or even a bookcase near such a window. One recent hot afternoon, I was at the East Coast Park sitting on a stone bench all by myself by the beach. Once outside, I took a seat on a stone bench near the door. Each book is ‘read and released’ into the wild by leaving it on a park bench or airline seat, or passed onto friends. In a public space the heart of the garden may be a grouping of chairs, or a stone bench, a small pond or fountain, or even a piece of sculpture. I arrived at Piccadilly, and settled down on a stone bench on the outskirts of the square. Furniture takes the form of either long, low timber benches, or blond wood chairs, equipped with kneelers. Mr Buttery wants to make more of the site, now barely more than a couple of park benches and an engraved stone. An elderly man paced back and forth before taking a seat on the park bench, while a light breeze sent trees dancing in the secluded darkness. Tall hedges stood with stone benches in front of them. Sitting on one of the stone benches, she broke down and cried. Synonyms pew, form, long seat, seat, stall, settle 2A long work table in a workshop or laboratory. （车间的）工作台，（实验室的）试验台 a 19th-century wheelwright's bench Example sentencesExamples All procedures are superbly illustrated for use at the laboratory bench. It was like mercury on a laboratory bench, running this way and that, breaking off here, regrouping there, and always deadly. I can envisage these pages being photocopied and pinned above laboratory benches around the world. In Downie's day, smallpox work was done on wooden benches in the open laboratory. But isn't it time the subject was brought from the clouds of science fiction to the debating hall and the laboratory bench? Alex had silently walked behind the lady on the laboratory benches, his feet lifting carefully over drying beakers and past a chemistry set. The position of the particular tray on the laboratory bench had no apparent effect on germination. A sturdy bench vise is invaluable for all kinds of maintenance and gunsmithing chores. They either trade or they place trays of good specimens on the benches around the laboratory. Field-collected seed was dried for several weeks on a laboratory bench. I was working at the bench in the microbiology laboratory of our city's largest hospital. This may seem obvious, but anyone who has spent much time at a gunsmith's bench knows there is a natural tendency to put off jobs that are more troublesome. The equipment can range from a simple draw bench for intermittent drawing, to multiple draw blocks for continuous operation. I went down to the garage just now and he was on Rainman's tool bench. Most obviously, it takes up about the space of a tennis court rather than the normal small area on top of a laboratory bench. The laboratory instruments are quite easily positioned on lower tables or benches for me to use from a wheelchair. My work over forty years at the laboratory bench has all been in fundamental immunology. The leaves were saturated with water and different degrees of water deficits were adjusted by exposing the leaves to transpirational water loss on the laboratory bench. Later, the new hires will take their places next to their ARS mentors at the laboratory benches. I bought a plain old mechanic's bench vise and bolted it to my garage workbench. By 1957 the laboratory benches had become so crowded that a cleanup had to be instituted. These two aqueous formulations were kept in clear bottles on a laboratory bench under normal laboratory lighting conditions. Literally within yards from my laboratory bench, I have had the opportunity to catch sight of the workings of nature. Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench. This street-roof is studded with glass lenses that shine daylight down to laboratory benches below. Synonyms workbench, worktable, table, counter, trestle table, board, work surface, worktop, buffet 3A judge's seat in a law court. 法官席 Example sentencesExamples Judge Pat lumbered up to his bench high above the courtroom. The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations. Normally in court the magistrate sits behind an elevated bench. He stared intently at the magistrates' bench and his defence solicitor throughout the case and spoke only to confirm his name and address. In an unprecedented move Magistrate Nicholas got up from the bench and sat at the bar table with the witness and the accused. You know I always wonder about the kind of people who sit on these judges benches and pass judgment over people. 3.1the bench The office of judge or magistrate. 法官职位，治安官职位 his appointment to the civil bench Example sentencesExamples Such a wage level is needed to maintain the independence of the judiciary and also to attract skilled jurists to the bench, they argue. His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement. Can no efforts be made to remove these Justices from the bench? Before joining the bench, the Judge was a law professor who was well known for his erudite criticism of legalized abortion. Motheral left the bench shortly after she presided over the controversial case last August involving then-State Rep. From 1982 to 1987, he took the bench as a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Clinton and picked by the Chief Justice to serve on the spy court. University law teachers and legal executives may be considered for the bench, he will tell the Woman Lawyer Forum in London. So instead, GOP senators are claiming that there's nothing wrong with naming politicized figures to the bench. However, there are some people who move from the academic field to practice or the bench. Mock court sessions designed to encourage potential magistrates to join the bench will be held in Bradford next month. A Leyland magistrate is being forced to retire from the bench against his will because he is too old! 3.2 A judge or magistrate presiding over a particular case. Example sentencesExamples He was committed in custody for sentence to Burnley Crown Court after the bench said the theft merited custody. Could a reasonable bench of justices, properly directing themselves, have held on the evidence that the appellant had. But on Tuesday, a bench of the high court stayed the single judge order quashing the project. An imposing judicial bench of three ‘judges’ and a departmental secretary survey the room. The bench apologised to defence solicitors, prosecutor and court staff that it did not start sitting at its scheduled time of 10 am. Magistrates threw out this appeal in October, but objectors are currently considering taking the bench's decision to judicial review at the High Court. They attended Salford Magistrates Court and persuaded the bench to throw out the council's application. The actress appealed against the verdict and a two-judge bench of the high court on Thursday stayed the film's release until another hearing next month. The bench of Supreme Court headed by Justice A.H.Ahmadi ordered a C.B.I. probe into the incident. Why not arrange that two of the five judges on the initial bench will be overseas judges with commercial experience? The sessions will take place at Bradford Magistrates Court in front of a specialised bench of magistrates and a prosecutor, who will be experts in ASBOs. Scotland's Lord Justice General recently presided over the bench of five senior judges who heard and ruled on the Lockerbie appeal. In a majority decision, the full bench of the Supreme Court quashed the previous suspended sentence. In a written decision following the two day hearing the tribunal bench unanimously backed her claim for unfair dismissal. Botha granted her leave to appeal against her conviction and she will be back in court before a full bench of three judges next year. With the agreement of the defence and prosecution, the case was heard without a jury before a bench of three Scottish judges. A petition questioning the controversial appeal decision was upheld by a three judge bench of the Supreme Court in mid December 2002. The high court bench upheld the trial court's verdict in October 1997. Another bench of Magistrates may, reasonable and rationally, have reached the decision that the appeal should have been dismissed. Synonyms judges, magistrates, judiciary, judicature court, law court, court of justice, bar, courtroom, tribunal, forum 4British A long seat in Parliament for politicians of a specified party. 〈英〉（某一党派或特定立场）议员席 the Conservative benches 保守党议员席。 Example sentencesExamples Dr Iddon joined the Labour benches in Parliament in 1997 after serving as a councillor on Bolton council. To achieve this, a precondition is that we should have greater diversity on our Parliamentary benches and in our Party as a whole. Britain's governing Labour Party had a record number of women on its parliamentary benches. He wants to win friends on the Labour back benches and among the party rank-and-file by appearing to be the champion of the poor. The opposition benches in parliament are now so full that JVP MPs will be compelled to physically sit on the government side. His leadership was cast into doubt again this week, publicly by a former MSP and privately by many who still sit behind him on the Scottish parliament benches. One of the odder aspects of the parliament's back benches is how little flexibility there is within the committee system. Over there on the Opposition benches is a National Party that has no real purpose. I can say in all honesty that I will be in no way surprised if he does not sit on the green benches in the next Parliament. The National Assembly now has five new political parties on its benches. Hopefully, the shamefulness of the result will ensure the Parliamentary benches are purged for the election to follow. Opposition to the government comes from the parties that sit on the Opposition benches in Parliament. As an MP his oratorical powers and capacity for mastering legislative detail made him the outstanding parliamentarian on the Labour bench. In general, it will be only through the Ombudsman that members of Parliament on the Opposition benches will be able to figure out what the commission is doing. A look at the Labour benches in the Dáil shows that the party has the most aged profile of any of the parties. We here on the National Party benches do not actually have a great deal of problem with that. Yet in a global war, Churchill's coalition government faced not just open rebellion but open contempt from senior parliamentarians on both benches. Eight years after the first all-race elections that saw the advent of democracy in South Africa, Suzman is no longer on the benches of Parliament. The leader's long goodbye has left too many idle hands on the Tory benches and in the party at large. What unreasonable burden does he wish to place on his parliamentary bench now? 4.1 The politicians occupying a specified bench in Parliament. 议员 the pledge that was given by the Opposition benches yesterday 反对党议员昨天所作的承诺。 Example sentencesExamples Dr. Singh, who has just returned from his four-day visit to Japan, is expected to dispel some of the concerns raised by the Opposition bench and the Left party, supporting his government. The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing. A special meeting of the Opposition will also be held on June 22 to discuss the line of action to be taken up by the Opposition bench during the Monsoon session. I understand where he is coming from and his very firm view, supported by the Opposition Bench, that the Government cannot at this stage accept that M85 should be discarded. This has come from the opposition benches in Parliament, the independence movement in Quebec and the general public as well as the arts community itself. 5the benchA seat at the side of a sports field for coaches, substitutes, and players not taking part in a game. （体育场地的）教练席；替补队员席；（不参加比赛的）运动员席 he must settle for a place on the substitute's bench Example sentencesExamples Right now, he is the first or second player off the bench. With Parke out of action Scott Jackson is likely to return to the bench for Saturday's game. The players and coaches jumped off the bench and began running out to the field to join their team in celebration. He moved to the bench as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 1998-99 campaign. Wasn't the substitute's bench just packed full of World Class players? He rarely allowed players to act on their instincts, controlling the game from the bench. In the first 19 games, Jackson didn't make it off the bench in seven games and never played more than 18 minutes. Which is to say, Jones watched the entire game from the bench. Don't send a stud player to the bench because he had a few bad games. Glasgow-born Haining had figured in just three previous senior outings after coming off the bench as a substitute. Unlike Northampton they couldn't call even better players off the bench to help out. The next season, he was back on the field as the bench coach for new Cleveland manager. First-choice half back Sean Long endured a nightmare first half at the JJB and should be relegated to the bench when coach David Waite names his side today. When a timeout is called, players stroll to the bench and coaches hustle to huddle. Low-end players come off the bench as substitutes for starting or injured players. With all of the starting spots filled, the Mariners may try to land a hitter who can share time in the outfield and come off the bench late in games. Both players have watched the last two games from the bench, sidelined with muscle injuries. On some occasions, teams could not even field a full complement of substitutes on their bench. A clenched fist pointed at the bench brings the player a rest and the right to put himself back in the game when he is rested. Then it was back to the bench for big games at Tottenham and Olympiakos. 6A flat ledge in masonry or on sloping ground. （砖石建筑的）壁架，（斜坡上的）平台 Example sentencesExamples Now on a broad bench, we followed it around to the right, going through a tunnel with snow. From the boxes to the benches high up the slope, the focus shifts from dinner to music as the concert begins. Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it. Hogback ridges impart vertical relief to a rocky bench and commonly form tide pools. The trail crosses onto the north side and continues downhill and east along the rocky bench above the creek. verb bɛn(t)ʃbɛn(t)ʃ [with object] 1Exhibit (a dog) at a show. （在展览会上）展览（狗） Affenpinschers and Afghans were benched side by side 猴㹴和阿富汗猎犬并排展出。 Example sentencesExamples All dogs entered by an owner/exhibitor or agent/handler can be benched together. About 850 dogs were benched under the canvas, many of them champions of their respective breeds. Open Class dogs will not be benched unless space is available. In 1888, additional safeguards were added, with the requirement for a duly qualified veterinary surgeon to be at every show, and each dog entered had to be passed on by him before being benched, and again he had to inspect each dog before noon of each day the show was open. As he went, he noted that the dogs were benched in such a way that each breed had a section to itself. 2North American Withdraw (a sports player) from play. 〈北美〉把（运动员）从比赛中撤下 the coach benched quarterback Cunningham in favour of McMahon 教练换下了四分卫兰德尔·坎宁安，换上了吉姆·麦克马洪。 Example sentencesExamples You have a certain amount of discipline points for the year - with discipline always being a matter of benching a player. Watch your team, switch starters and bench players to see what works. Inordinate frustration is another reason to bench the player. He was benched by the head coach in the third quarter, something that should have been done a couple of weeks ago. He realized it could hurt the Vikings if he benched one of his best special teams players when facing one of the top return men in the league. These four teams have benched their original starting quarterbacks, and we're just starting the second half of the season. At one point, coach Curt Fraser benched him for a game for poor defensive play. Coach Evans benched him for all but two minutes in the second quarter. Eight teams have benched their opening game quarterback, at least briefly. Players who get benched for making turnovers need to have a chance to redeem themselves. And the Spurs are famously one of those teams that will bench players who don't play defense. Rumor has it that your basketball coach is benching you for the next few games? Evidently they've changed the rules so teams no longer have to fake injuries to bench a player. One reason benching players is so detrimental to team play is that it eventually fractures unity. The team has tried switching personnel, blitzing more often and benching players. Still, McRae has not been hesitant to bench players who fail to do the little things. My eighth grade coach would have benched me for that much slapping, poking, and grabbing. Just as a player is benched, cut, or fined for violations, officials should be held accountable more publicly. If the offending player is benched for game, you'll find that things go a lot smoother afterwards. His one basketball problem was a struggle to defend the pick-and-roll that forced coach Tom Izzo to bench him in early February. 3 he benched almost 500 pounds short for bench press (verb) Example sentencesExamples He used to bench 255 pounds, but by the end of the study, he was lifting an amazing 315 pounds! He was benching 310 pounds like it was nobody's business. If your rate of improvement thus far were projected 15 years down the road, you would be benching 1,400 pounds. He watched the boy start benching about 145 pounds, and wondered how cool he would be if he benched more than that. If you provide them both with four years of weight training, which one is mostly likely to be able to bench 250 pounds when the program is over? If it means going from 200 to 205 for bench presses, then to 215 and 225, I'm gradually achieving the long-term goal of benching 300 pounds. He's now up to about 240 pounds and benching about 170. In 1987, I won my first gold medal by benching 375 pounds, and have won 16 consecutive golds in the event since. He's got the long-hair, the ripped clothing, and he can bench 200 pounds. I don't even know if he could bench 300 pounds, which is a bit surprising. Phrases on the bench 1Appointed as or in the capacity of a judge or magistrate. 法官职位，治安官职位 he retired after twenty-five years on the bench 他当了25年的法官后退休。 Example sentencesExamples Frank worked long hours as a Judge hence his massive output of work on the bench. It's not uncommon for conservative judges to become more liberal once they're on the bench. The female magistrate had sat on the bench at the applicant's trial for escaping lawful custody. He was appointed a magistrate on the Westbury bench in 1980 and became chairman in 1989. That two of five judges on the bench thought otherwise should be chilling enough. 2Acting as one of the possible substitutes in a sports match. （体育比赛中）当替补队员 Robson will again be on the bench Example sentencesExamples It is no use him sitting on the bench just watching the match against Germany. He has also been silly enough to make Kumble sit on the bench in many matches. When Charlton's season kicked off at the Reebok stadium, the three were all on the bench as substitutes. York Wasps coach Garry Atkins said today that Forsyth will start tomorrow's match on the bench. Keighley have former Bees centre Tim Marlow on the bench for their Yorkshire One match at home to Selby. Louw will start the game on the bench and is likely to feature as a second half substitute. Touch wood, I am now injury free, in fact I have been on the bench for the last two matches. There must be a time when you have to call it a day, and I don't think I would like to spend the last few matches on the bench. With no substitute keeper on the bench, City were forced to put skipper Robert Morgan in goal. He is yet to play a first team match for Liverpool, although he has been on the bench on numerous occasions. Origin Old English benc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bank and German Bank, also to bank¹. bank from Middle English: The very different uses of bank are all ultimately related. The bank beside a river was adopted from a Scandinavian word in the early Middle Ages, and is related to bench (Old English). The earliest use of the bank for a financial institution referred to a money-dealer's counter or table. This came from French or Italian in the late 15th century, but goes back to the same root as the river bank. A bank of oars or of lights represents yet another related form. It came into English in the early Middle Ages from French, and originally meant a bench or a platform to speak from. The bench or platform sense is also found in mountebank (late 16th century) for a charlatan, which comes from Italian monta in banco ‘climb on the bench’ referring to the way they attract a crowd, while a bankrupt (mid 16th century), originally a bankrout takes us back to the ‘counter’ sense. It is from Italian banca rotta, which really means ‘a broken bench’, referring to the breaking up of the traders business at the counter. The word was altered early on in its history in English, through association with Latin ruptus ‘broken’. Yet another word from the same source is banquet (Late Middle English) which comes from the French for ‘little bench’ and was originally a snack rather than a lavish meal. Rhymes backbench, blench, clench, Dench, drench, entrench, French, frontbench, quench, stench, tench, trench, wench, wrench noun.1 phr. Definition of bench in US English: bench nounben(t)SHbɛn(t)ʃ 1A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone. （多指木制或石制）长凳，长椅 Example sentencesExamples Once outside, I took a seat on a stone bench near the door. Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well. Furniture takes the form of either long, low timber benches, or blond wood chairs, equipped with kneelers. I took a seat on the park bench, and Mina followed suit hesitantly. Mr Buttery wants to make more of the site, now barely more than a couple of park benches and an engraved stone. They finally took a seat on a stone bench located near one tiny pond within the back garden. Tall hedges stood with stone benches in front of them. Cate straightened herself on the stone bench and sat up, not wanting to attract any unwanted attention. It was smaller than the other gardens on the property - a brick path led to the center of the garden where two stone benches sat under a single tree. The second-class had wooden seats like park benches and that was it. Each book is ‘read and released’ into the wild by leaving it on a park bench or airline seat, or passed onto friends. In a public space the heart of the garden may be a grouping of chairs, or a stone bench, a small pond or fountain, or even a piece of sculpture. Sitting on one of the stone benches, she broke down and cried. Spoons clatter, wooden benches scrape against the stone floor. I arrived at Piccadilly, and settled down on a stone bench on the outskirts of the square. One recent hot afternoon, I was at the East Coast Park sitting on a stone bench all by myself by the beach. And because young children climb, never put a chair, sofa, bench or even a bookcase near such a window. The second miniature shows a couple embracing, seated on a stone bench in front of a starry sky with a disc-shaped moon. Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs. An elderly man paced back and forth before taking a seat on the park bench, while a light breeze sent trees dancing in the secluded darkness. Synonyms pew, form, long seat, seat, stall, settle 2A long, sturdy work table used by a carpenter, mechanic, scientist, or other worker. Example sentencesExamples Later, the new hires will take their places next to their ARS mentors at the laboratory benches. They either trade or they place trays of good specimens on the benches around the laboratory. Literally within yards from my laboratory bench, I have had the opportunity to catch sight of the workings of nature. My work over forty years at the laboratory bench has all been in fundamental immunology. Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench. I was working at the bench in the microbiology laboratory of our city's largest hospital. These two aqueous formulations were kept in clear bottles on a laboratory bench under normal laboratory lighting conditions. I can envisage these pages being photocopied and pinned above laboratory benches around the world. By 1957 the laboratory benches had become so crowded that a cleanup had to be instituted. The equipment can range from a simple draw bench for intermittent drawing, to multiple draw blocks for continuous operation. In Downie's day, smallpox work was done on wooden benches in the open laboratory. This may seem obvious, but anyone who has spent much time at a gunsmith's bench knows there is a natural tendency to put off jobs that are more troublesome. The leaves were saturated with water and different degrees of water deficits were adjusted by exposing the leaves to transpirational water loss on the laboratory bench. A sturdy bench vise is invaluable for all kinds of maintenance and gunsmithing chores. I bought a plain old mechanic's bench vise and bolted it to my garage workbench. Alex had silently walked behind the lady on the laboratory benches, his feet lifting carefully over drying beakers and past a chemistry set. All procedures are superbly illustrated for use at the laboratory bench. I went down to the garage just now and he was on Rainman's tool bench. Most obviously, it takes up about the space of a tennis court rather than the normal small area on top of a laboratory bench. But isn't it time the subject was brought from the clouds of science fiction to the debating hall and the laboratory bench? The laboratory instruments are quite easily positioned on lower tables or benches for me to use from a wheelchair. This street-roof is studded with glass lenses that shine daylight down to laboratory benches below. It was like mercury on a laboratory bench, running this way and that, breaking off here, regrouping there, and always deadly. The position of the particular tray on the laboratory bench had no apparent effect on germination. Field-collected seed was dried for several weeks on a laboratory bench. Synonyms workbench, worktable, table, counter, trestle table, board, work surface, worktop, buffet 3A judge's seat in a court. 法官席 Example sentencesExamples In an unprecedented move Magistrate Nicholas got up from the bench and sat at the bar table with the witness and the accused. Judge Pat lumbered up to his bench high above the courtroom. The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations. Normally in court the magistrate sits behind an elevated bench. You know I always wonder about the kind of people who sit on these judges benches and pass judgment over people. He stared intently at the magistrates' bench and his defence solicitor throughout the case and spoke only to confirm his name and address. 3.1the bench The office of judge or magistrate. 法官职位，治安官职位 his appointment to the civil bench Example sentencesExamples Motheral left the bench shortly after she presided over the controversial case last August involving then-State Rep. However, there are some people who move from the academic field to practice or the bench. Can no efforts be made to remove these Justices from the bench? A Leyland magistrate is being forced to retire from the bench against his will because he is too old! So instead, GOP senators are claiming that there's nothing wrong with naming politicized figures to the bench. His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement. Before joining the bench, the Judge was a law professor who was well known for his erudite criticism of legalized abortion. University law teachers and legal executives may be considered for the bench, he will tell the Woman Lawyer Forum in London. Such a wage level is needed to maintain the independence of the judiciary and also to attract skilled jurists to the bench, they argue. Mock court sessions designed to encourage potential magistrates to join the bench will be held in Bradford next month. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Clinton and picked by the Chief Justice to serve on the spy court. From 1982 to 1987, he took the bench as a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge. 3.2 Judges or magistrates collectively. 总称法官，治安官 rulings from the bench Example sentencesExamples The actress appealed against the verdict and a two-judge bench of the high court on Thursday stayed the film's release until another hearing next month. A petition questioning the controversial appeal decision was upheld by a three judge bench of the Supreme Court in mid December 2002. But on Tuesday, a bench of the high court stayed the single judge order quashing the project. The high court bench upheld the trial court's verdict in October 1997. Why not arrange that two of the five judges on the initial bench will be overseas judges with commercial experience? The bench apologised to defence solicitors, prosecutor and court staff that it did not start sitting at its scheduled time of 10 am. With the agreement of the defence and prosecution, the case was heard without a jury before a bench of three Scottish judges. Could a reasonable bench of justices, properly directing themselves, have held on the evidence that the appellant had. In a written decision following the two day hearing the tribunal bench unanimously backed her claim for unfair dismissal. Another bench of Magistrates may, reasonable and rationally, have reached the decision that the appeal should have been dismissed. They attended Salford Magistrates Court and persuaded the bench to throw out the council's application. In a majority decision, the full bench of the Supreme Court quashed the previous suspended sentence. He was committed in custody for sentence to Burnley Crown Court after the bench said the theft merited custody. An imposing judicial bench of three ‘judges’ and a departmental secretary survey the room. The sessions will take place at Bradford Magistrates Court in front of a specialised bench of magistrates and a prosecutor, who will be experts in ASBOs. The bench of Supreme Court headed by Justice A.H.Ahmadi ordered a C.B.I. probe into the incident. Magistrates threw out this appeal in October, but objectors are currently considering taking the bench's decision to judicial review at the High Court. Scotland's Lord Justice General recently presided over the bench of five senior judges who heard and ruled on the Lockerbie appeal. Botha granted her leave to appeal against her conviction and she will be back in court before a full bench of three judges next year. Synonyms judges, magistrates, judiciary, judicature 4British A seat in Parliament for politicians of a specified party or position. 〈英〉（某一党派或特定立场）议员席 the Conservative benches 保守党议员席。 the Opposition benches Example sentencesExamples Dr Iddon joined the Labour benches in Parliament in 1997 after serving as a councillor on Bolton council. The National Assembly now has five new political parties on its benches. The opposition benches in parliament are now so full that JVP MPs will be compelled to physically sit on the government side. Hopefully, the shamefulness of the result will ensure the Parliamentary benches are purged for the election to follow. Yet in a global war, Churchill's coalition government faced not just open rebellion but open contempt from senior parliamentarians on both benches. Opposition to the government comes from the parties that sit on the Opposition benches in Parliament. To achieve this, a precondition is that we should have greater diversity on our Parliamentary benches and in our Party as a whole. One of the odder aspects of the parliament's back benches is how little flexibility there is within the committee system. I can say in all honesty that I will be in no way surprised if he does not sit on the green benches in the next Parliament. He wants to win friends on the Labour back benches and among the party rank-and-file by appearing to be the champion of the poor. His leadership was cast into doubt again this week, publicly by a former MSP and privately by many who still sit behind him on the Scottish parliament benches. The leader's long goodbye has left too many idle hands on the Tory benches and in the party at large. In general, it will be only through the Ombudsman that members of Parliament on the Opposition benches will be able to figure out what the commission is doing. Britain's governing Labour Party had a record number of women on its parliamentary benches. Eight years after the first all-race elections that saw the advent of democracy in South Africa, Suzman is no longer on the benches of Parliament. What unreasonable burden does he wish to place on his parliamentary bench now? As an MP his oratorical powers and capacity for mastering legislative detail made him the outstanding parliamentarian on the Labour bench. Over there on the Opposition benches is a National Party that has no real purpose. We here on the National Party benches do not actually have a great deal of problem with that. A look at the Labour benches in the Dáil shows that the party has the most aged profile of any of the parties. 4.1 The politicians occupying a specific seat in Parliament. 议员 the pledge that was given by the Opposition benches yesterday 反对党议员昨天所作的承诺。 Example sentencesExamples A special meeting of the Opposition will also be held on June 22 to discuss the line of action to be taken up by the Opposition bench during the Monsoon session. This has come from the opposition benches in Parliament, the independence movement in Quebec and the general public as well as the arts community itself. The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing. I understand where he is coming from and his very firm view, supported by the Opposition Bench, that the Government cannot at this stage accept that M85 should be discarded. Dr. Singh, who has just returned from his four-day visit to Japan, is expected to dispel some of the concerns raised by the Opposition bench and the Left party, supporting his government. 5the benchA seat on which sports coaches and players sit during a game when they are not playing. Example sentencesExamples With all of the starting spots filled, the Mariners may try to land a hitter who can share time in the outfield and come off the bench late in games. On some occasions, teams could not even field a full complement of substitutes on their bench. The players and coaches jumped off the bench and began running out to the field to join their team in celebration. In the first 19 games, Jackson didn't make it off the bench in seven games and never played more than 18 minutes. Right now, he is the first or second player off the bench. Unlike Northampton they couldn't call even better players off the bench to help out. Both players have watched the last two games from the bench, sidelined with muscle injuries. Low-end players come off the bench as substitutes for starting or injured players. The next season, he was back on the field as the bench coach for new Cleveland manager. Don't send a stud player to the bench because he had a few bad games. First-choice half back Sean Long endured a nightmare first half at the JJB and should be relegated to the bench when coach David Waite names his side today. Then it was back to the bench for big games at Tottenham and Olympiakos. Wasn't the substitute's bench just packed full of World Class players? With Parke out of action Scott Jackson is likely to return to the bench for Saturday's game. A clenched fist pointed at the bench brings the player a rest and the right to put himself back in the game when he is rested. Which is to say, Jones watched the entire game from the bench. He rarely allowed players to act on their instincts, controlling the game from the bench. When a timeout is called, players stroll to the bench and coaches hustle to huddle. He moved to the bench as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 1998-99 campaign. Glasgow-born Haining had figured in just three previous senior outings after coming off the bench as a substitute. 6A flat ledge in masonry or on sloping ground. （砖石建筑的）壁架，（斜坡上的）平台 Example sentencesExamples Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it. From the boxes to the benches high up the slope, the focus shifts from dinner to music as the concert begins. Now on a broad bench, we followed it around to the right, going through a tunnel with snow. The trail crosses onto the north side and continues downhill and east along the rocky bench above the creek. Hogback ridges impart vertical relief to a rocky bench and commonly form tide pools. verbben(t)SHbɛn(t)ʃ [with object] 1Exhibit (a dog) at a show. （在展览会上）展览（狗） Affenpinschers and Afghans were benched side by side 猴㹴和阿富汗猎犬并排展出。 Example sentencesExamples All dogs entered by an owner/exhibitor or agent/handler can be benched together. As he went, he noted that the dogs were benched in such a way that each breed had a section to itself. In 1888, additional safeguards were added, with the requirement for a duly qualified veterinary surgeon to be at every show, and each dog entered had to be passed on by him before being benched, and again he had to inspect each dog before noon of each day the show was open. About 850 dogs were benched under the canvas, many of them champions of their respective breeds. Open Class dogs will not be benched unless space is available. 2North American Withdraw (a sports player) from play; substitute. 〈北美〉把（运动员）从比赛中撤下 the coach benched quarterback Randall Cunningham in favor of Jim McMahon 教练换下了四分卫兰德尔·坎宁安，换上了吉姆·麦克马洪。 Example sentencesExamples At one point, coach Curt Fraser benched him for a game for poor defensive play. One reason benching players is so detrimental to team play is that it eventually fractures unity. Just as a player is benched, cut, or fined for violations, officials should be held accountable more publicly. Inordinate frustration is another reason to bench the player. He realized it could hurt the Vikings if he benched one of his best special teams players when facing one of the top return men in the league. Eight teams have benched their opening game quarterback, at least briefly. Rumor has it that your basketball coach is benching you for the next few games? The team has tried switching personnel, blitzing more often and benching players. These four teams have benched their original starting quarterbacks, and we're just starting the second half of the season. If the offending player is benched for game, you'll find that things go a lot smoother afterwards. He was benched by the head coach in the third quarter, something that should have been done a couple of weeks ago. Players who get benched for making turnovers need to have a chance to redeem themselves. Still, McRae has not been hesitant to bench players who fail to do the little things. My eighth grade coach would have benched me for that much slapping, poking, and grabbing. Evidently they've changed the rules so teams no longer have to fake injuries to bench a player. Coach Evans benched him for all but two minutes in the second quarter. You have a certain amount of discipline points for the year - with discipline always being a matter of benching a player. His one basketball problem was a struggle to defend the pick-and-roll that forced coach Tom Izzo to bench him in early February. And the Spurs are famously one of those teams that will bench players who don't play defense. Watch your team, switch starters and bench players to see what works. 3 he benched almost 500 pounds short for bench press (verb) Example sentencesExamples He watched the boy start benching about 145 pounds, and wondered how cool he would be if he benched more than that. I don't even know if he could bench 300 pounds, which is a bit surprising. If you provide them both with four years of weight training, which one is mostly likely to be able to bench 250 pounds when the program is over? He used to bench 255 pounds, but by the end of the study, he was lifting an amazing 315 pounds! If it means going from 200 to 205 for bench presses, then to 215 and 225, I'm gradually achieving the long-term goal of benching 300 pounds. He was benching 310 pounds like it was nobody's business. He's got the long-hair, the ripped clothing, and he can bench 200 pounds. If your rate of improvement thus far were projected 15 years down the road, you would be benching 1,400 pounds. He's now up to about 240 pounds and benching about 170. In 1987, I won my first gold medal by benching 375 pounds, and have won 16 consecutive golds in the event since. Phrases on the bench 1Appointed as or in the capacity of a judge or magistrate. 法官职位，治安官职位 he retired after twenty-five years on the bench 他当了25年的法官后退休。 Example sentencesExamples It's not uncommon for conservative judges to become more liberal once they're on the bench. He was appointed a magistrate on the Westbury bench in 1980 and became chairman in 1989. The female magistrate had sat on the bench at the applicant's trial for escaping lawful custody. Frank worked long hours as a Judge hence his massive output of work on the bench. That two of five judges on the bench thought otherwise should be chilling enough. 2Acting as one of the possible substitutes in a sports contest. （体育比赛中）当替补队员 Example sentencesExamples There must be a time when you have to call it a day, and I don't think I would like to spend the last few matches on the bench. Touch wood, I am now injury free, in fact I have been on the bench for the last two matches. When Charlton's season kicked off at the Reebok stadium, the three were all on the bench as substitutes. York Wasps coach Garry Atkins said today that Forsyth will start tomorrow's match on the bench. He is yet to play a first team match for Liverpool, although he has been on the bench on numerous occasions. With no substitute keeper on the bench, City were forced to put skipper Robert Morgan in goal. Louw will start the game on the bench and is likely to feature as a second half substitute. Keighley have former Bees centre Tim Marlow on the bench for their Yorkshire One match at home to Selby. It is no use him sitting on the bench just watching the match against Germany. He has also been silly enough to make Kumble sit on the bench in many matches. Origin Old English benc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bank and German Bank, also to bank. noun.1 phr.
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