Mattress
['mætrɪs] or ['mætrəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed.
德威特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
(n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
錄入:洛伦佐
解釋/意思:
n. a bed made of a bag stuffed with wool horse-hair &c.: a mass of brushwood &c. used to form a foundation for roads &c. or for the walls of embankments &c.—Spring mattress a mattress in which springs of twisted wire are used to support the stuffed part; Wire mattress one whose elasticity is produced by a sheet of tightly-stretched wire.
編輯:洛娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a mattress, denotes that new duties and responsibilities will shortly be assumed. To sleep on a new mattress, signifies contentment with present surroundings. To dream of a mattress factory, denotes that you will be connected in business with thrifty partners and will soon amass wealth.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- And again the woman anxiously and actively fingered the mattress and added up in her mind and bargained with the old, unclean man. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There were in the cell, a chair, a table, and a straw mattress. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Stretched upon a mattress on the floor, lay Noah Claypole, fast asleep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Looking in, I saw a lighted candle on a table, a bench, and a mattress on a truckle bedstead. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The mattress was firm and comfortable and I lay without moving, hardly breathing, happy in feeling the pain lessen. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Well, now, the under sheet you must bring over the bolster,--so--and tuck it clear down under the mattress nice and smooth,--so,--do you see? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- No bed may be without an inexpensive steel spring frame or mattress for the support of the bedding. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They consisted of a sort of saw-buck with a small mattress on it, and this furniture covered about half the donkey. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Our guide there fidgeted about as if he had swallowed a spring mattress. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Syrian saddle-blanket is a quilted mattress two or three inches thick. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Phil cannot even go straight to bed, but finds it necessary to shoulder round two sides of the gallery and then tack off at his mattress. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- When they had felt the mattress, the young woman asked the old man seated on a stool among his wares, how much it was. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It's in the lining of the mattress, Charley. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I have a little brass bed in a dressing-room, and a little hair mattress like an anchorite. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The mattresses were laid 35 to 50 feet wide at the bottom, which width was considerably increased by the superimposed layer of stone, and the jetties extended 2? miles into the sea. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- She hit into the mattresses as if she was boxing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They arise, roll up and stow away their mattresses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- This was effected by sinking mattresses of willow branches bound together and weighted with stone. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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