【问】 请辨析take a chair与take the chair.

【答】 take a chair表示“(取把椅子)坐下”：

1. Won’t you take a chair? (ALD)

怎么不坐下呢?

2. Take a chair，please.

请坐。

take the chair则表示“主持会议”、“作主席”：

1. I took the chair at a meeting some time ago. (Wilde)

前些日子我主持了一次会议。

2. He frequently takes the chair and is a very bad chairman. (Yeats)

他经常主持会议，但却是一个很糟糕的主席。