bolster
英 ['b??lst?]
美['bolst?]
- n. 支持；长枕
- vt. 支持；支撑
- n. (Bolster)人名；(英)博尔斯特
CET6+GRETOEFL中低频词扩展词汇
词态变化
复数:?bolsters;第三人称单数:?bolsters;过去式:?bolstered;过去分词:?bolstered;现在分词:?bolstering;
中文词源
bolster 垫枕，支持
词源同ball, 原来指鼓起来的垫子，枕头，护垫等，主要作名词使用。后来做动词使用，指支持，保护。
英文词源
- 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.)).
双语例句
- 1. Britain is free to adopt policies to bolster its economy.
- 英国可以自由制定政策以振兴经济。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.
- 高利率使经济更稳健.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. He tried to bolster up their morale.
- 他尽力鼓舞他们的士气.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Pillars bolster the roof.
- 柱子支撑屋顶.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. His re-creation of the city is credible, with a substratum of fact to bolster the fiction.
- 他对该城历史的再现是可信的，虚构的小说情节隐念着一些事实作为支撑。
来自柯林斯例句