couch
Word family adjectivecouchantnouncouchingcouch potatocouch
Furniture
couch1 /kaʊtʃ/ ●●● S3 noun [countableC] 1 
DHFa comfortable piece of furniture big enough for two or three people to sit on 长沙发 SYN sofa, settee
DHFa comfortable piece of furniture big enough for two or three people to sit on 长沙发 SYN sofa, settee Tom offered to sleep on the couch.
汤姆说他来睡沙发。
2. DHFa long narrow bed for a doctor’s or psychiatrist’s patients to lie on 〔医生诊所内给病人躺卧的〕诊察台，长榻
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couch• A television set was placed at the end of the purple couch, right at arm level.• We bounced, as did the couches.• The bed has been removed; so has the couch.• He staggered round the rear of the couch, feet crunching in plaster, and sat down.• With the arm resting on the couch the force needed to accelerate the arm is coming from the material of the couch.• After 20 years on the couch, Richard is finally giving up therapy.• Benjy pushed the cushions back on to the couch.• The couch has been recently reupholstered.
couch2 verb
be couched in something formalEXPRESS to be expressed in a particular way 以〔特定方式〕表达，用…措辞
The offer was couched in legal jargon.
那份提议是用法律术语写的。
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be couched in something• Reporters could not attend meetings, press releases were couched in generalities and favoured the conservative line.• The message would be couched in Inquisition language; the Astropath would parrot the words out telepathically.• Emily Pfeiffer's case for women's education, for example, was couched in language that would appease social Darwinists.• While the description of the problem is couched in literary terms, hypotheses ought to be couched in operational terms.• The Declaration of Rights itself was couched in the language of political conservatism.• The language of the Bible is couched in the language of the first century.• At worst a vague objective should be couched in very precise terms.
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couch• The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms.• Reporters could not attend meetings, press releases were couched in generalities and favoured the conservative line.• It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home.• While the description of the problem is couched in literary terms, hypotheses ought to be couched in operational terms.• The Declaration of Rights itself was couched in the language of political conservatism.• The language of the Bible is couched in the language of the first century.
(1300-1400) French couche, from coucher “to lie”, from Latin collocare “to put in place”; → COLLOCATE