bolster

英 ['bəʊlstə]美 ['bolstɚ]
  • n. 支持；长枕
  • vt. 支持；支撑
  • n. (Bolster)人名；(英)博尔斯特
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中文词源

bolster 垫枕，支持

词源同ball, 原来指鼓起来的垫子，枕头，护垫等，主要作名词使用。后来做动词使用，指支持，保护。

英文词源

bolster
bolster: [OE] The idea underlying bolster ‘long pillow’ is of something stuffed, so that it swells up. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *bolstraz, which was a derivative of *bolg-, *bulg- (source also of bellows, belly, billow and possibly bell, bellow, and bold). German has the related polster ‘cushion, pillow’.
=> bell, bellow, belly, billow, bold
bolster (v.)
mid-15c. (implied in bolstered), "propped up, made to bulge" (originally of a woman's breasts), from bolster (n.). Figurative sense is from c. 1500, on the notion of "to support with a bolster, prop up." Related: Bolstering.
bolster (n.)
Old English bolster "bolster, cushion, something stuffed so that it swells up," especially "long, stuffed pillow," from Proto-Germanic *bolkhstraz (cognates: Old Norse bolstr, Danish, Swedish, Dutch bolster, German polster), from PIE *bhelgh- "to swell" (see belly (n.)).

双语例句

1. Britain is free to adopt policies to bolster its economy.
英国可以自由制定政策以振兴经济。
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2. The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.
高利率使经济更稳健.
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3. He tried to bolster up their morale.
他尽力鼓舞他们的士气.
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4. Pillars bolster the roof.
柱子支撑屋顶.
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5. His re-creation of the city is credible, with a substratum of fact to bolster the fiction.
他对该城历史的再现是可信的，虚构的小说情节隐念着一些事实作为支撑。
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