cushion

• n. 墊子；起緩解作用之物；（豬等的）臀肉；銀行儲蓄
• vt. 給…安上墊子；把…安置在墊子上；緩和…的衝擊

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.

1. Lie face upwards with a cushion under your head.

頭枕墊子仰臥。

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2. The subsidies are designed to cushion farmers against unpre-dictable weather.

這些補助金用於減輕農民因難以預測的惡劣天氣而遭受的損失。

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3. He sat on a tapestry cushion next to the hearth.

他坐在壁爐邊上的一塊繡花軟墊上。

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4. Use a small cushion to help give support to the lower back.

用一個小靠墊幫助支撐腰部。

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5. The kitten was curled on a cushion on the sofa.

那隻小貓在沙發墊子上蜷縮成了一團。

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