bolster
英['b??lst?]
美['bolst?]
- n. 支持；長枕
- vt. 支持；支撐
- n. (Bolster)人名；(英)博爾斯特
詞態變化
復數:?bolsters;第三人稱單數:?bolsters;過去式:?bolstered;過去分詞:?bolstered;現在分詞:?bolstering;
中文詞源
bolster 墊枕，支持
詞源同ball, 原來指鼓起來的墊子，枕頭，護墊等，主要作名詞使用。后來做動詞使用，指支持，保護。
英文詞源
- 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.)).
雙語例句
- 1. Britain is free to adopt policies to bolster its economy.
- 英國可以自由制定政策以振興經濟。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.
- 高利率使經濟更穩健.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. He tried to bolster up their morale.
- 他盡力鼓舞他們的士氣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Pillars bolster the roof.
- 柱子支撐屋頂.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. His re-creation of the city is credible, with a substratum of fact to bolster the fiction.
- 他對該城歷史的再現是可信的，虛構的小說情節隱念著一些事實作為支撐。
來自柯林斯例句