commode
commode 英 [kəˈməʊd] 美 [kəˈmoʊd]
n. 洗脸台；便桶；衣柜
名词复数:commodes
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- n. 洗脸台；便桶；衣柜
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1. So what exactly is wrong with the current commode?
现在的便桶有什么问题吗？
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2. They were kept in a small kitchen in the back of the family house, forced to sleep on wooden beds and use a commode instead of a modern toilet.
他把女儿囚禁在房屋后面的一个小厨房里，逼她们睡木板床，用老式便桶。
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3. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat.
他从抽斗柜上跳下来，拿起他的帽子。
- commode (n.) 1786, "decorative chest of drawers for holding clothes, handy articles, etc.," earlier (1680s) name of a type of fashionable ladies' large, high headdress mounted on a wire frame, from French commode, noun use of adjective meaning "convenient, suitable," from Latin commodus "proper, fit, appropriate, convenient, satisfactory," from com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + modus "measure, manner" (from PIE root *med- "take appropriate measures"). Meaning "chair housing a chamber pot," usually kept in a bedroom, is first attested 1851 from notion of "convenience."
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