鋪下去給人或動物躺的那一層
最直接的一組：床上那層和籠子裡那層，做的事完全一樣，只是躺上去的是人還是動物。
noun · B1
The sheets, covers, blankets, quilts and pillowcases that you put on a bed, spoken about as one group of things rather than one by one.
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A picture for the whole word: a layer that someone puts down, so that something else can settle into it. In a bedroom that layer is sheets and covers, and a person lies on it. In a barn or a cage it is straw or wood , and an animal lies on it. In a garden the layer is the soft ground of a flower bed, and this season's plants are set into it. Each time, the layer is laid down for a while, used, and then taken away and replaced.
整個字可以想成一層東西：有人先鋪下去，好讓另一樣東西安置在上面。在臥室，那一層是床單和被子，躺上去的是人。在畜舍或籠…更多收起
整個字可以想成一層東西：有人先鋪下去，好讓另一樣東西安置在上面。在臥室，那一層是床單和被子，躺上去的是人。在畜舍或籠子裡，那一層是稻草或木屑，躺上去的是動物。在庭院，那一層是花壇鬆軟的土，被放進去的是這一季的花。三個情況都一樣：鋪下去、用一陣子、再整批換掉。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives bedding as Middle English bedding, from Old English bedding, equivalent to bed + -ing. That fits all three modern uses, since each names what goes with a bed — a bed to sleep on, a bed of straw, or a flower bed.
來源說這個字從中古英語 bedding、更早從古英語 bedding 來，等於 bed 加上 -ing。這條線索剛好對得上今天的三個用法。因為每一個都在講「跟某種 bed 有關的那一層東西」：睡覺的床、稻草鋪的地方，還有花壇。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry for 'bedding' (etymology 1): 'From Middle English bedding, beddyng, from Old English bedding (bedding), equivalent to bed + -ing.'
Two branches
花壇裡種下的那一季
這裡的 bed 不是睡覺的床，是 flower bed（花壇）。鋪下去、住一陣子、再整批換掉——這個節奏跟床上那層其實是同一個。
noun · C1
Garden plants that are put into a flower bed to give colour for a single season and are then taken out and replaced; the word is also used for the practice of planting them that way.
花壇草花
原始詞典資料7 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。
Beddingname
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A surname.
beddingnoun詞源 1/ˈbɛdɪŋ/
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The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
- Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do.
- Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
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The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
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Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesA structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
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agriculturebusinesshorticultureThe temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。