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- a floor or stair covering made from thick woven fabric, typically shaped to fit a particular room地毯：
the house has fitted carpets throughout
整个房子都铺了地毯
mass noun the floor was covered with carpet.地板上铺了层地毯。
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- a large rug, especially an oriental one（尤指东方的）大厚毯：
priceless Persian carpets.
无价的波斯厚毯。
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- figurative a thick or soft expanse or layer of something〈喻〉（厚或柔软的）地毯状物：
carpets of wood anemones and bluebells.
一层层厚厚的五叶银莲花和野风信子。
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- informal, chiefly US a type of artificial playing surface on a tennis court or sports field〈非正式, 主美〉（网球场等的）人工球场。
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- with modifier a slender moth marked typically with undulating bands of colour across the wings地毯衣蛾。
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- Many species in the family Geometridae, including the garden carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata).尺蛾科中的多种, 包括花园地毯衣蛾（拉丁名Xanthorhoe fluctuata）。
(carpeted, carpeting)with obj.
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- （一般作be carpeted）cover (a floor or stairs) with a carpet用地毯铺设（地板, 楼梯）：
the stairs were carpeted in a lovely shade of red.
楼梯上铺了可爱的红地毯。
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- figurative cover with a thick or soft expanse or layer of something〈喻〉用厚（或软）层覆盖：
the meadows are carpeted with flowers.
草地上繁花如毯。
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- Brit. informal reprimand severely〈英, 非正式〉申斥：
the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses.
财政大臣痛斥银行老板们。
短语
on the carpet
- informal being severely reprimanded by someone in authority〈非正式〉被（当权者）严厉训斥：
we've all been on the carpet for the chances we took.
我们因冒险而被训斥。
ORIGIN: from carpet in the sense 'table covering', referring to 'the carpet of the council table', before which one would be summoned for reprimand.
sweep something under the carpet
- conceal or ignore a problem or difficulty in the hope that it will be forgotten掩盖; 忽视（问题, 困难）。
词源
Middle English (denoting a thick fabric used as a cover for a table or bed)： from Old French carpite or medieval Latin carpita, from obsolete Italian carpita 'woollen counterpane', based on Latin carpere 'pluck, pull to pieces'.