a long wooden seat in a church 教堂长椅 sitting in the front pew 坐在前排座位上 The first two rows of pews were occupied by the families of the bride and groom. 教堂前两排的长椅上坐着新娘和新郎的家人。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPew is used after these nouns:- church
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a raised, enclosed place in a church, provided for particular worshippers): from Old French puye ‘balcony’, from Latin podia, plural of podium ‘elevated place’.
Idioms
take a pew!
- (British English, informal, humorous)
used to tell somebody to sit down 坐下！ Come in and take a pew. Can I get you a cup of tea? 请进来坐。我给你倒杯茶好吗？