English Dictionary

hot seat

名詞

俗語 広義 限定用法

(slang) The electric chair. / The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone. / (by extension) Any stressful situation.

日本語の意味

（スラング）電気椅子として使われる、またはその象徴的な意味合い。 / テレビゲームショーなどで出場者が質問に答えるために座る席。 / 転じて、極めてストレスやプレッシャーがかかる状況や立場。

When the execution date was set, the condemned man finally understood that the hot seat was real.

執行日が決まったとき、死刑囚はついに電気椅子が現実のものだと悟った。

意味（1）

(slang) The electric chair.

Looks like you for the hot seat, kid. Come along, both of you.

意味（2）

The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone.

意味（3）

(by extension) Any stressful situation.

Now just a minute. You turn up out of nowhere, a routine space shot goes wrong, a new planet appears and you tell us you know all about it. That puts you slap bang in the hot seat, right?

意味（4）

(video games, attributive) A multiplayer game mode where the players take turns playing the game.

In addition to traditional LAN play and online modes, there's […] a hot seat mode in which multiple players take their turns on the same computer […].

hot seats （ plural ）