她让我坐下并告诉我这个坏消息。

She ___sat me ___down and told me the bad news.

我以为我们会让孩子们坐在桌子的末端。

I thought we'd ___sit the children ___at the end of the table.

当父母让我坐下告诉我母亲被诊断出癌症，更具体地说，是脑瘤时，我完全没有准备。

I wasn't prepared at all when my parents ___sat me ___down to tell me that my mother had been diagnosed with cancer, more specifically, a brain tumor.