墊著、減緩撞擊（動作）
把那塊墊子的作用寫成動作：不再講「有一塊軟的東西」，而是講「軟的東西替你擋掉了那一下」。主詞常常就是那個軟的東西本身。
soften an impact · verb · B1
To make a fall or hit less painful by having something soft in the way.
緩衝；減緩撞擊
核心畫面
Picture a soft, stuffed pad — you drop it between yourself and a hard chair, and the hardness never reaches you. Something soft sitting in the gap, taking the force. That pad is the picture behind the rubber rail of a pool table, the money you keep aside, and the verb as well.
可以想成一個軟軟的、塞滿填充物的墊子：你把它放在自己和硬椅子中間，那份硬就傳不到身上了。「有個軟的東西卡在中間，替你…更多收起
可以想成一個軟軟的、塞滿填充物的墊子：你把它放在自己和硬椅子中間，那份硬就傳不到身上了。「有個軟的東西卡在中間，替你吃掉力道」——撞球檯的橡膠邊、你存下來的那筆錢，還有當動詞用的時候，看起來都是從這張圖延伸出去的。From the picture
看不見的緩衝（錢、餘裕、衝擊）
把那塊墊子從地板挪到人生裡：壞事發生時，中間如果有一層東西擋著，你就不會直接撞上。這層東西通常是錢、時間或某種安排。
financial cushion · noun · B1
Something, especially money, that keeps you from being hurt right away by a bad situation.
緩衝；餘裕
Also in this word
cushion (pillow) · noun · B1
A soft pad that you sit on or lean against.
坐墊；靠墊
padding, buffer · noun · B1
A soft layer that protects something by taking the force of a hit.
緩衝墊
billiard table edge · noun · B1
The soft rubber edge around a pool or snooker table, which balls bounce off.
庫邊；框邊
原始詞典資料17 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。
cushionnoun/ˈkʊʃən/
- 1
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
- “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- 2
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
- 3
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
- 4
Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
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Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
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ball-gamesbilliardsgamesSomething acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
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Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
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Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
historicalSomething acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
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historicalSomething acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
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a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- Wisla made a bright start to the second half and Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer was twice called into action, first saving Gervasio Nunez's deflected 20-yard effort and then smothering Gargula's free-kick. But Fulham soon had the cushion of a third goal after more outstanding build-up play.
- It will most likely not alter the destination of the league title, which still seems bound for City, who retain an 11-point cushion at the top
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businessfinancea sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- The entry-level wages are abominable, still something like $15,000 a year. You can't possibly be a working class person and live on that in New York City. You need some kind of family "cushion." So what you'll find in publishing is middle class professionals, people who see material about working class people as "foreign."
- Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.
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historicalThe dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
- But of these kind of second Courses I am the onely Cook; though yet those ordinary practises of our Feasts, as choosing a King, throwing Dice, drinking Healths, trouling it Round, dancing the Cushion and the like, were not invented by the seven Wise Men but my Self, and that too for the common pleasure of Mankind.
- The young man advances to the fiddler, drops a penny in the pot, and gives it to one of his companions. Cushion then dances round the room, followed by the pot, and when they again reach the fiddler, the cushion says, in a sort of recitative, accompanied by the music, 'This dance it will no farther go.'
cushionverb/ˈkʊʃən/
- 1
To furnish with cushions.
- to cushion a sofa
- 2
To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
- How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and being cushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?
- 3
To absorb or deaden the impact of.
- to cushion a blow
- […]the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant[…]
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To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
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。