rug
noun /rʌɡ/
/rʌɡ/
Idioms - enlarge imagea piece of thick material like a small carpet that is used for covering or decorating part of a floor
小地毯；垫子 - a hearth rug (= in front of a fireplace)
壁炉前的小地毯 - an oriental rug
东方地毯。 - a sheepskin rug
羊皮地毯 - A Persian rug covered the polished floor.
一块波斯地毯铺在光亮的地板上。 - There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around.
有好几张亮丽的毯子铺在地上。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hearth
- oriental
- Persian
- …
- make
- weave
- cover something
- a hearth rug (= in front of a fireplace)
- (British English) a piece of thick warm material, like a blanket, that is used for wrapping around your legs to keep warm
（盖腿的）厚毯子 - a travel rug
旅行毛毯 - a tartan rug
花格小地毯
- a travel rug
- (informal, humorous) a toupee (= a small section of artificial hair, worn by a man to cover an area of his head where hair no longer grows)
地毯： 假发
词源mid 16th cent. (denoting a type of coarse woollen cloth): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect rugga ‘coverlet’, Swedish rugg ‘ruffled hair’; related to rag ‘piece of cloth’. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th cent.
Idioms
pull the rug (out) from under somebody’s feet
- (informal) to take help or support away from somebody suddenly
突然停止帮助（或支援）
sweep something under the rug (North American English)
(also sweep something under the carpet British and North American English)
- to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done
掩盖某事 - An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the rug.
早先一份牵连政府的报告被轻易地掩盖了。
- An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the rug.