cushion

英 ['k??(?)n] 美['k???n]

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復(fù)數(shù):?cushions;第三人稱單數(shù):?cushions;過去式:?cushioned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?cushioning;

cushion ：諧音：“苦行”=甘地，坐在一個(gè)墊子上年佛經(jīng)=坐墊

cushion 墊子

來自拉丁詞culcita, 墊子，詞源同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’.
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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.

2. The subsidies are designed to cushion farmers against unpre-dictable weather.: 這些補(bǔ)助金用于減輕農(nóng)民因難以預(yù)測的惡劣天氣而遭受的損失。

4. Use a small cushion to help give support to the lower back.: 用一個(gè)小靠墊幫助支撐腰部。

5. The kitten was curled on a cushion on the sofa.: 那只小貓?jiān)谏嘲l(fā)墊子上蜷縮成了一團(tuán)。