stool

• n. 凳子；糞便；廁所
• vi. 長新枝；分檗
• vt. 引誘，誘捕

來自古英語 stol,凳子，來自 Proto-Germanic*stolaz,凳子，來自 PIE*sta,站立，詞源同 stand,stall.

stool

stool: [OE] Although stools are for sitting on, the word’s etymological meaning is ‘stand’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *stōlaz, which was formed from the base *stō-, *sta- ‘stand’ (source of English stand) using the noun suffix *-l- (in much the same way as saddle was formed from a base meaning ‘sit’). The notion of ‘standing’ no doubt passed into ‘sitting’ via an intermediate generalized ‘be positioned or situated’.

In the 15th century stool came to be applied specifically to a ‘commode’, and this led to its use in the following century for an ‘act of defecating’, and hence for a ‘piece of faeces’. Stoolpigeon [19] originated in American English as a term for a decoy pigeon tied to a stool.
=> stall, stand

stool (n.)

Old English stol "seat for one person," from Proto-Germanic *stolaz (cognates: Old Frisian stol, Old Norse stoll, Old High German stuol, German Stuhl "seat," Gothic stols "high seat, throne"), from PIE *sta-lo-, locative of root *sta- "to stand" (cognates: Lithuanian pa-stolas "stand," Old Church Slavonic stolu "stool;" see stet).

Originally used of thrones (as in cynestol "royal seat, throne"); decline in sense began with adoption of chair (n.) from French, which relegated stool to small seats without arms or backs, then to "privy" (early 15c.) and thence to "bowel movement" (1530s).

1. The stool had a torn, red plastic seat.

那個凳子的紅色塑料座麵已經破舊不堪。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He hoisted himself onto a high stool.

他抬身坐上了一張高凳子。

來自《權威詞典》

3. He perched on a tall stool by the bar.

他坐在吧台前的高凳子上.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The little dog jumped over the short stool.

小狗跳過了這條小凳子.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The stool is steady enough.

這個凳子很穩.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》