The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.

主日学校的孩子们分散在各处，和父母坐在一起，以便受到监督。

The pews have become more dead and songless.

教堂里的礼拜会众变得更加死气沉沉，毫无歌声。

Then they left me to sit in one of the pews and gather my thoughts.

接着，他们留下我一人坐在大厅的长凳上深思。

But the pews were packed, the extra chairs claimed, the doorways crowded.

但是，座位爆满，除了额外的椅子，门口也是人。

The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons;

教堂里的座位靠背很高，没有垫子，一共可坐三百人。

Plaques and family pews proliferated; the gentry even had their own fireplaces in some churches.

在有些教堂，贵族甚至拥有专用壁炉。

The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.

长木椅、布道坛和祭坛都与教堂朴素高雅的气氛一致。

So some people will be settled into church pews while others prepare to head out to the park, if not the beach.

有人刚在教堂的长凳上落座，另一些人可能正准备去公园或者海滩。

First the steeple burned, then the roof; then the blazing rafters collapsed into the nave, and the pews caught fire.

塔尖先起了火，接着教堂的顶部也燃起火；后来燃烧的椽子坠入到教堂的正厅，教堂里的长凳着起了火。

Dwight Moody's love for children motivated him to rent pews at church and fill them with neighborhood boys and girls.

端特。慕迪爱孩子的心，驱动他租下教会的场地，将附近的男孩、女孩带来坐满教堂。

It is simply not something that most people in the pews care very much about, whether they live in Oxfordshire or Gambia.

不管是牛津还是冈比亚的教徒，这根本不是他们特别关心的事儿。

I don't know how some in today's church got the false idea that the preacher is a servant and the folks in the pews are just members.

我不明白如今教会的一些兄弟姐妹怎么会有这样一种错误的念头，认为牧师是仆人，而坐在教堂靠背长凳上的人们只是会员而已。

At Vatican City on Friday night, Catholic worshippers packed pews inside St. Peter's Basilica to hear Pope Benedict XVI deliver Midnight Mass.

周五晚上，梵蒂冈城圣伯多禄大殿里的长凳上挤满了天主教徒，他们来此望教宗本笃十六世主持的子夜弥撒。

We sat in the pews for a long time waiting for the ceremony to begin, wondering what the delay was and we subsequently heard what had happened.

我们在教堂长椅上枯坐了很久，眼巴巴地等着典礼开始，一边纳闷婚礼怎么会耽搁这么久。后来，我们终于知道了是怎么回事。

He and his cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, would sit in the hard pews from 11 in the morning till two in the afternoon, watching the light change.

他和摄影师Sven Nykvist从早上11：00至下午两点就一直坐在教堂里的长凳上，观察周围光照的变化。

It was built by British missionaries about 120 years ago, and its cherry -wood pews and lofty pulpit would make any Anglican congregation in Surrey proud.

它是由英国传教士在大约120年建造的，里面的樱桃木长椅和高耸的神坛足以让任何一位圣公会信徒感觉到骄傲。

And perhaps understandably, given the number of empty pews across the nation's churches each Sunday, far fewer weddings include a religious ceremony nowadays.

这也许可以让我们理解，每周日全国教堂里那些长凳空无人坐，因为现在举行婚礼和在婚礼上举行宗教仪式的人越来越少了。

The Philadelphia allegations are only the latest in a long line of charges that have rocked the church for a decade, causing crowds to leave already emptying pews.

费城犯罪案只是十年来动摇教堂地位一大堆判决中最近的一些案件，这让原本就寥寥无几的教徒更是选择大批离开教堂。

When Mickey finally hits rock bottom and runs into the church, seeking redemption, let’s have all the female parishioners instantly jump up onto the pews, pointing and shrieking, “Kill it!

当米奇终于跌到人生的最低点，他冲到教堂，希望得到拯救。 这时要让所有的女性教区居民都立即跳起来，跳到教堂里的长凳上，指着米奇尖叫：“杀了它！

The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews.

我们出生的那个晚上，雷暴劈倒了新教堂大院里的一棵树，整个建筑着了火，最后只剩下了烧焦了的尖塔裂片和冒着烟的教堂板凳。