bolster

英 ['bəʊlstə] 美 ['bolstɚ]

解释

※ 提供单词"bolster"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

bolster 垫枕，支持

词源同ball, 原来指鼓起来的垫子，枕头，护垫等，主要作名词使用。后来做动词使用，指支持，保护。

bolster: bolster: [OE] The idea underlying bolster ‘long pillow’ is of something stuffed, so that it swells up. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *bolstraz, which was a derivative of *bolg-, *bulg- (source also of bellows, belly, billow and possibly bell, bellow, and bold). German has the related polster ‘cushion, pillow’.
=> bell, bellow, belly, billow, bold
bolster (v.): mid-15c. (implied in bolstered), "propped up, made to bulge" (originally of a woman's breasts), from bolster (n.). Figurative sense is from c. 1500, on the notion of "to support with a bolster, prop up." Related: Bolstering.
bolster (n.): Old English bolster "bolster, cushion, something stuffed so that it swells up," especially "long, stuffed pillow," from Proto-Germanic *bolkhstraz (cognates: Old Norse bolstr, Danish, Swedish, Dutch bolster, German polster), from PIE *bhelgh- "to swell" (see belly (n.)).

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1. Britain is free to adopt policies to bolster its economy.: 英国可以自由制定政策以振兴经济。

5. His re-creation of the city is credible, with a substratum of fact to bolster the fiction.: 他对该城历史的再现是可信的，虚构的小说情节隐念着一些事实作为支撑。