Cushion
['kʊʃ(ə)n] or ['kʊʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc..
(noun.) the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle.
(verb.) protect from impact; 'cushion the blow'.
达雷尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
(n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use
(n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf
(n.) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston
(n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.
(n.) A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.
(v. t.) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
(v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
(v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
多米尼克整理
解釋/意思:
n. a case filled with some soft elastic stuff for resting on: a pillow: the 'pillow' used in making bone-lace: an engraver's pad: the rubber of an electrical machine: a pad supporting a woman's hair: the elastic lining of the inner side of a billiard-table: a body of steam remaining in the cylinder of a steam-engine acting as a buffer to the piston.—v.t. to seat on or furnish with a cushion.—p.adj. Cush′ioned furnished with a cushion padded: having cushion-tires.—ns. Cush′ionet a little cushion; Cush′ion-tire a bicycle tire made of india-rubber tubing with india-rubber stuffing.—adj. Cush′iony like a cushion soft.
安娜校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of reclining on silken cushions, foretells that your ease will be procured at the expense of others; but to see the cushions, denotes that you will prosper in business and love-making. For a young woman to dream of making silken cushions, implies that she will be a bride before many months.
格雷西校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The cushion had been removed, and the Bible was not there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy--a boy of not more than seventeen at the most. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Miss Bart accepted the cup of tea, but put back the cushion with an impatient hand. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He drew her to the arm-chair near the fire, and placed a cushion behind her shoulders. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Meg had a cushion, Jo a book, Beth a basket, and Amy a portfolio. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She kept the bouquet close to her on the cushion, and wouldn't allow Jip to sit on that side of her at all, for fear he should crush it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Then Holmes hurried with a cushion for his head, and I with brandy for his lips. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The table was of the usual European style --cushions dead and twice as high as the balls; the cues in bad repair. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Her head dropped on the cushions; and she burst out crying. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The convertible rails, however, because of their rigidity, are more desirable than the convertible cushions. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They have immense, flat, forked cushions of feet, that make a track in the dust like a pie with a slice cut out of it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His head fell on the sofa cushions. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The cushions are fastened to the inside of the rail by means of a specially prepared glue. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the cushioned seat. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They return to the house of Cephalus, Polemarchus' father, now in extreme old age, who is found sitting upon a cushioned seat crowned for a sacrifice. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She herself sat primly and somewhat grimly-tidy in a cushioned rocking-chair, her hands busied with some knitting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The ideas of William Thomson as to pneumatic and cushioned tires are now, after a lapse of fifty years, generally adopted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They cushioned me up on a large sofa by the fire, and then the comely landlady told me that I must travel no further to-night, but must go to bed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- To the rear of the door is secured the cast iron circular ring A, inside of which lies the Russia iron diaphragm B, cushioned at its edges with a rubber band. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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