| 英语单词 | mattress |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['mætrəs] 美 ['mætrəs] |
| 中文释义 | n.床垫 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He kept his life's savings under his mattress. (2) We have just bought a new mattress. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他将他一辈子的积蓄藏在床垫下。 (2) 我们买了一个新的床垫。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Your mattress is the padded part of your bed that rests on top of the frame or box springs and is covered in a sheet. Some people prefer a soft, squishy mattress, while others like their mattresses firm. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Some mattresses have a system of springs inside to provide just the right amount of firmness and bounce when you lie on them. Others are made of a dense kind of foam that supports a sleeper's body comfortably. The earliest mattresses were filled with straw or horse hair, and in many societies people don't sleep on mattresses at all, instead using mats or futons. The Arabic root of mattress is al-matrah, "thing thrown down." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]褥垫;床垫 A mattress is the large, flat object which is put on a bed to make it comfortable to sleep on. |
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