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A footstool is a low, small piece of furniture you rest your feet on while you sit in a chair. It is not your main seat — though a child might perch on one. Some are , some are plain wood; they live in front of an . An ottoman can be bigger and may open for storage; footstool is the clearer “this is for your feet” word. In old religious English you may meet the earth is his footstool, a picture of power, not a shopping word. In ordinary rooms, it is just the low rest for tired legs.
腳凳、踏腳凳
原始詞典資料2 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。
footstoolnoun/ˈfʊtˌstuːl/
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A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
- In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.
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Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.
- Thereafter, when I have eaten and drunken and made merry in my royal palace at Carcë, I will sail with my armies over the teeming deep to many-mountained Demonland. And it shall be my footstool, and these other Demons the slaves of me, yea, and the slaves of my slaves.
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。