bed
27 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural beds
plural beds
Learner's definition of BED
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a : a piece of furniture that people sleep on床
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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。
- There are two beds in the hotel room.酒店的房间里有两张床。
- a hospital bed医院病床
- a single bed [=a bed for one person]单人床
- a double bed [=a bed for two people]双人床
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- It's time to get out of bed. [=get up]起床的时间到了。
- He lay/stayed in bed all morning.他在床上躺了一上午。
- 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。
- 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？
- 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
- She caught her husband and his secretary in bed together. = She caught her husband in bed with his secretary.她撞见自己的丈夫在和秘书偷情。
◊ To go to bed with someone is to have sex with someone.（与某人）发生性关系
- She likes him as a friend, but she's not interested in going to bed with him.她喜欢和他做朋友，但没有兴趣和他上床。
◊ 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
- He has fantasies about getting a fashion model into bed.他幻想着能和时装模特上床。
◊ Phrases like these are also used figuratively.此类短语也用作比喻。
- 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
- 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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[count] : a small area of ground specially prepared for plants苗床；苗圃；花坛 — see also bed of roses, flower bed, seedbed
- I'm planning on putting a bed of perennials in that corner of the yard.我打算在庭院的那个角落里搭个多年生植物的苗床。
- a bed of flowers花坛
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a : a flat pile or layer of something层；薄层
- a bed of coals煤层
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
- grilled fish served on a bed of greens用青菜作底的烤鱼
- a bed of rice底层米饭
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[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
- 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
- the bed of the truck卡车的后厢
- We loaded the equipment and put a cover over the truck bed.我们把设备装上了卡车，并用苫布把车厢盖好。
die in (your) bed
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
- Be careful when you talk to the boss. He got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.和老板说话可要留点神，他今早一直都心情不好。
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
- There's nothing we can do to help her. She's made her bed and has to lie in it.我们没法帮助她，她这是自作自受。
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
- the sorrows of their marriage bed他们婚姻的诸多不幸
2 bed /ˈbɛd/ verb
beds; bedded; bedding
2 bed
/ˈbɛd/
verb
beds; bedded; bedding
Learner's definition of BED
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1
informal + old-fashioned : to have sex with (someone)（与某人）上床
- He has fantasies about bedding a fashion model.他幻想着能和时装模特上床。
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: 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
- a mixture of scallops and lobster bedded on rice扇贝龙虾焗饭
bed down
[phrasal verb] 1
: to lie down somewhere for sleep睡；躺
- There were so many people that some of us had to bed down in the living room.我们人太多了，有些人得睡在客厅里了。
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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。
- 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。