单词 | pillow |
释义 | pillowWord family adjectivepillowedpillowynounpillowcasepillow pil·low1 /ˈpɪləʊ $ -loʊ/ ●●● S3 noun [countableC] 1 DHFa cloth bag filled with soft material that you put your head on when you are sleeping 枕头 I’ll be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. → cushion1(1) 我头一碰到枕头就会睡着。 2. pillow fight DGOa game in which children hit each other with pillows 枕头战〔小孩用枕头打闹〕 Examples from the Corpus pillow fight• Is it like a pillow fight with rock-hard chestnuts? 3. pillow talk informalTALK TO somebody conversation between lovers in bed 〔情侣间的〕枕边话 Examples from the Corpus pillow talk• Maybe later he'd get the information he was after during pillow talk.• It was spying, giving away secrets, pillow talk ... Luke knew how desperate she was. Examples from the Corpus pillow• You can't get prints off a pillow.• Some permanent hooches were air conditioned; they had maid service, with sheets and pillows.• As a child, I used to keep them in a perforated matchbox under my pillow and listen to them at night.• At length his other hand stole forward to play with the copper tresses that fell about the pillows.• She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats.• Slumping back on the pillow, she tried to ignore it.• He would shove the pillows around some more. pillow2 verb [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] literary to rest your head somewhere 把〔头〕枕在 His head was pillowed on his arm. 他头枕在胳膊上。 Examples from the Corpus pillow• I found there a rebel, covered with clotted blood, pillowing his head on the dead body of a comrade.• There was a dull pain in his left biceps - Tessa's head was pillowed on it. Old English pyle, from Latin pulvinus |
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