因为感冒还没好，他选择不参加这次篮球比赛。

Since he still had a cold, he chose to ___sit out the basketball game.

我们只能坐在教室里，忍受这场无聊的讲座。

We had to ___sit through the boring lecture in the classroom.

医生建议他休息两周，不要参加任何比赛。

The doctor suggested he should ___sit out all matches for two weeks to recover.