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Abed means in bed — lying there, still in bed, not up yet. It is an old, way to say it. You will meet it in older stories and poems more than in talk: someone is still abed at noon; a sick person lies abed for days. People today almost always say in bed. Abed is an adverb, not a thing: it is not “a bed.” It can sound gentle or a little old-fashioned, not stiff in a courtroom way, just from another time.
在床上(古雅、書面;日常不這麼說)
組成From Middle English abedde / o bedde, from Old English on (“in”) + bedde (“bed”). Same idea as a- (“in, on”) + bed.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Abedname/ˈɑːbɛd/
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A male given name from Arabic.
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A surname.
abedadv/əˈbɛd/
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archaicIn bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
- Not to be abed after midnight
- [She] is sick abed.
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archaicOn a childbed.
- I mean, she's brought a-bed
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。