cushion

英 ['kʊʃ(ə)n] 美 ['kʊʃən]

解释

※ 提供单词"cushion"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。

cushion 垫子

来自拉丁词culcita, 垫子，词源同quilt.

cushion: cushion: [14] Ultimately, cushion and quilt are the same word. Both come from Latin culcita ‘mattress, cushion’, which is related to Sanskrit kūrcás ‘bundle’, and both reached English via rather circuitous routes. In Gallo-Roman (the descendant of Latin spoken in France from the 5th to the 9th centuries) culcita underwent a transformation which produced Old French coissin and cussin, which Middle English borrowed as quisshon and cushin.

The complexity of forms spawned by these was quite staggering – the OED records nearly seventy spellings of the word – but by the 17th century things had settled down, with cushion emerging the winner. Cushy [20], incidentally, is quite unrelated, being a borrowing from Hindi khūsh ‘pleasant’.
=> quilt
cushion (n.): c. 1300, from Old French coissin "seat cushion" (12c., Modern French coussin), probably a variant of Vulgar Latin *coxinum, from Latin coxa "hip, thigh," or from Latin culcita "mattress." Someone has counted more than 400 spellings of the plural of this word in Middle English wills and inventories. Also from the French word are Italian cuscino, Spanish cojin.
cushion (v.): 1730s, from cushion (n.). In the figurative sense, from 1863. Related: Cushioned; cushioning.

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2. The subsidies are designed to cushion farmers against unpre-dictable weather.: 这些补助金用于减轻农民因难以预测的恶劣天气而遭受的损失。

4. Use a small cushion to help give support to the lower back.: 用一个小靠垫帮助支撑腰部。