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.房间里只有一张床和一个梳妆台。
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There are two beds in the hotel room.酒店的房间里有两张床。
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a hospital bed医院病床
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a single bed [=a bed for one person]单人床
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a double bed [=a bed for two people]双人床
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He lay on the bed [=on top of the sheets, blankets, and bedspread] for a long time.他在床上躺了好长时间。
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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]别忘了把床铺整理好。
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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点钟左右睡觉。
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It's time to get out of bed. [=get up]起床的时间到了。
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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]孩子们喜欢在睡觉前听故事。
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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?]你安顿好孩子们上床睡觉了吗?
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Come on, children. It's time for bed. [=bedtime, time to sleep]快点,孩子们。该睡觉了。
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used in phrases that describe having sexual relations用于短语,表示发生性关系 ◊ 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.(与某人)发生性关系
◊ To get someone into bed is to get someone to have sex with you.使某人(与自己)发生性关系
◊ Phrases like these are also used figuratively.此类短语也用作比喻。
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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]被指控与石油行业有染的政客
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The Communists and the Fascists got into bed with each other [=joined forces] to keep the liberals out of power.这两家公司私下里联手制定了一个双赢的方案。
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a : a flat pile or layer of something层;薄层 b : a flat pile or layer of food that is placed on a dish with other food on top of it(食物的)底层 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(生长某种生物的)浅水区 — see also riverbed, seabed 6
[count] technical : a layer of rock or some other material from inside the earth(地下岩石等构成的)地层 -
fossil beds化石层
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a bed of shale页岩层
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[count] : the platform or box in the back of some kinds of trucks(卡车后部的)平板,车厢 — 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;(有时用作比喻)婚姻,夫妻间的房事 2 bed /ˈbɛd/ verb
beds; bedded; bedding
beds; bedded; bedding
Learner's definition of BED
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informal + old-fashioned : to have sex with (someone)(与某人)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为…提供睡觉的地方 -
They bedded us down in the living room.他们安排我们睡在客厅里。
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When the animals had been fed and bedded down, we went inside to eat dinner.给动物喂完食、收拾好窝后,我们才进屋去吃饭。