n.
    
      - 床;睡眠處[C][U]
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Joe sat on the 
bed.
喬坐在床上。
 
      - 睡覺;就寢時間[U]
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It's too early for 
bed.
睡覺還太早。
 
      - (河)床;(海,湖的)底;底部[C]
 
      - 基礎;基座[C]
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The statue rests on a 
bed of concrete.
這座雕像立在混凝土的基座上。
 
      - 苗床,花壇[C]
 
      - 層;地層[C]
 
    
    vt.
    
      - 為……提供床舖(或宿處)[(+down)]
 
      - 把……安置在(某種基礎上),將……嵌入[O]
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The bullet 
bedded itself in the wall.
這顆子彈嵌進了牆內。
 
      - 把……栽於苗床(或花壇)[(+out)]
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They 
bedded the plants in good soil.
他們將這些秧苗栽在沃土中。
 
      - 【口】和……發生性關係
 
    
    vi.
    
      - 睡,臥[(+down)]
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I'll 
bed down on the sofa.
我就睡在沙發上。
 
    
   
  片語
  
    bed down
    
      - 宿夜
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I'll 
bed down on the chairs.
晚上我就睡在椅子上。
 
    
    bed of roses
    
      - 稱心如意的境遇
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Marriage is not always a 
bed of roses.
婚姻並不總是稱心如意的。
 
    
    a bed of thorns/nails
    
      - 極難受之處境
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At any period of history it is the unemployed who find life to be 
a bed of thorns.
在任何歷史階段,總是失業者才感受到生活的艱辛難熬。
 
    
    have got out of bed on the wrong side
    
      - 情緒不好
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He must 
have got out of bed on the wrong side today, because he has shouted at everybody in the office.
今天他準是情緒不佳,辦公室裡的每一個人他都訓斥了。
 
    
    have made one's bed and have to lie in/on it
    
      - 自食其果
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He 
has made his own 
bed and now he 
has to lie in it.
他自食苦果。
 
    
    take to one's bed
    
      - 臥病
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I had to 
take to my bed with a bad cold last week.
上週我重傷風,只好臥病在床。
 
    
   
  辨析
  
 
  n.
     - a piece of furniture incorporating a mattress or other surface for sleeping or resting on. 
▸a place for a patient in a hospital.
 ▸informal used with reference to a bed as a place for sexual activity.
 - an area of ground where flowers and plants are grown.
 - a flat base or foundation on which something rests or is supported. 
▸chiefly N. Amer. the open part of a truck or cart, where goods are carried.
 - a stratum or layer of rock.
 - the bottom of the sea or a lake or river. 
▸a place on the seabed where shellfish breed or are bred.
 
v.
 (beds, bedding, bedded)
    - provide with sleeping accommodation. 
▸
(bed down)
 settle down for the night in an improvised place.
 - informal have sex with.
 - 
(bed something out)
 transfer a plant from a pot or seed tray to the ground.
 - fix firmly; embed. 
▸lay or arrange in a layer.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    - bed and board
 lodging and food.  - bed of nails
 a board with nails pointing out of it, as lain on by fakirs and ascetics.  - a bed of roses
 
[usu. with neg.]
 a situation or activity that is comfortable or easy.  - be brought to bed
 archaic (of a woman) give birth to a child.  - get out of bed on the wrong side
 start the day in a bad mood, which continues all day long.  - put something to bed
 informal make a newspaper ready for press. 
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE bed, bedd (n.), beddian (v.), of Gmc origin.