bunk
bunk 英 [bʌŋk] 美 [bʌŋk]
n. 铺位；床铺；座床 vi. 睡在铺上；逃跑 vt. 为…提供铺位；逃课
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- A bunk is a bed that's built above another bed. Twin sisters might argue nightly over who gets the top bunk.
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- n. 铺位；床铺；座床
- vi. 睡在铺上；逃跑
- vt. 为…提供铺位；逃课
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1. We might as well bunk down in this hotel.
我们还是在这家旅馆找床铺睡觉为好。
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2. Three weeks afterward the man lay in bunk on the whale-ship beford, and with tears streaming down his wasted cheeks told who he was and what he had undergone.
三个星期后，这个人躺在“贝德福号”捕鲸船的一个铺位上，眼泪顺着消瘦的面颊淌了下来，他说起了他的身份，还有他经历过的一切。
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3. When I climbed into my bunk at midnight, dark thoughts joined me.
半夜里，我爬上了自己的铺位，脑子里愁云密布。
- bunk (n.1) 1758, "sleeping-berth in a vessel," later in a railroad car, etc., probably a shortened form of bunker (n.) in its sense of "seat." Bunk-bed (n.) attested by 1869.
- bunk (n.2) "nonsense," 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. The usual story (attested by 1841) of its origin is this: At the close of the protracted Missouri statehood debates in the U.S. Congress, supposedly on Feb. 25, 1820, North Carolina Rep. Felix Walker (1753-1828) began what promised to be a "long, dull, irrelevant speech," and he resisted calls to cut it short by saying he was bound to say something that could appear in the newspapers in the home district and prove he was on the job. "I shall not be speaking to the House," he confessed, "but to Buncombe." Thus Bunkum has been American English slang for "nonsense" since 1841 (it is attested from 1838 as generic for "a U.S. Representative's home district").
- bunk (v.) "to sleep in a bunk," by 1840, originally nautical, from bunk (n.1). Hence "to occupy a bed." Related: Bunked; bunking.
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