plural beds
plural beds
Learner's definition of BED
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a : a piece of furniture that people sleep on床 [count]
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The room contains only a bed and a dresser.房間裏只有一張床和一個梳妝台。
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There are two beds in the hotel room.酒店的房間裏有兩張床。
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a hospital bed醫院病床
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a single bed [=a bed for one person]單人床
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a double bed [=a bed for two people]雙人床
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He lay on the bed [=on top of the sheets, blankets, and bedspread] for a long time.他在床上躺了好長時間。
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Don't forget to make the bed. [=to neatly arrange the sheets, blankets, and bedspread on the bed so that the mattress is covered]别忘了把床鋪整理好。
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He became ill and took to his bed. [=he went to lie in bed for a long time]他因病卧床休息了。
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She usually goes to bed [=lies down in her bed to sleep] around 11:00.她通常在11點鐘左右睡覺。
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It's time to get out of bed. [=get up]起床的時間到了。
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He lay/stayed in bed all morning.他在床上躺了一上午。
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The kids like to hear a story before bed. [=before they go to sleep]孩子們喜歡在睡覺前聽故事。
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Have you put the children to bed? [=have you prepared the children to go to sleep and put them in their beds?]你安頓好孩子們上床睡覺了嗎?
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Come on, children. It's time for bed. [=bedtime, time to sleep]快點,孩子們。該睡覺了。
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used in phrases that describe having sexual relations用於短語,表示發生性關系 ◊ Someone who is good in bed is a skillful lover. When two people are in bed, they are in the act of having sex.*good in bed指某人床上功夫一流;in bed指在交媾
◊ To go to bed with someone is to have sex with someone.(與某人)發生性關系
◊ To get someone into bed is to get someone to have sex with you.使某人(與自己)發生性關系
◊ Phrases like these are also used figuratively.此類短語也用作比喻。
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a politician who is accused of being in bed with the oil industry [=of having an improperly close relationship with the oil industry]被指控與石油行業有染的政客
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The Communists and the Fascists got into bed with each other [=joined forces] to keep the liberals out of power.這兩家公司私下裏聯手制定了一個雙赢的方案。
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a : a flat pile or layer of something層;薄層 b : a flat pile or layer of food that is placed on a dish with other food on top of it(食物的)底層 5 [count]
a : the ground that is at the bottom of a sea, lake, etc.(海、湖等的)底;(河)床 b : an area of shallow water where something grows(生長某種生物的)淺水區 — see also riverbed, seabed 6
[count] technical : a layer of rock or some other material from inside the earth(地下岩石等構成的)地層 -
fossil beds化石層
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a bed of shale頁岩層
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[count] : the platform or box in the back of some kinds of trucks(卡車後部的)平板,車廂 — see also flatbed
die in (your) bed
— see 1die
get up on the wrong side of the bed
(US) or chiefly British get out of bed on the wrong side
: to be in a bad mood throughout the day全天心情不好
make your bed and lie in it
◊ Expressions like you've made your bed, and now you must lie in it mean that you have done something that causes problems and now you must accept and deal with those problems.自作自受;自食其果
marriage bed
: a bed that married people share —
sometimes used figuratively to refer to marriage in general or to the sexual relations that married people have婚床;(有時用作比喻)婚姻,夫妻間的房事 2 bed /ˈbɛd/ verb
beds; bedded; bedding
beds; bedded; bedding
Learner's definition of BED
[+ object]
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informal + old-fashioned : to have sex with (someone)(與某人)上床 2
: to place (food) on a pile or layer of something else把(食物)放在…上 —
usually used as (be) bedded通常用作(be) bedded
bed down
[phrasal verb] 1
: to lie down somewhere for sleep睡;躺 2
bed (someone or something) down or bed down (someone or something) : to provide (a person or animal) with a place to sleep爲…提供睡覺的地方 -
They bedded us down in the living room.他們安排我們睡在客廳裏。
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When the animals had been fed and bedded down, we went inside to eat dinner.給動物喂完食、收拾好窩後,我們才進屋去吃飯。