doss

英 [dɒs] 美 [dɑs]
  • n. 床铺;简陋床铺;小客栈;睡眠
  • vi. 凑合躺下睡觉;将就过夜
  • n. (Doss)人名;(英、法、德)多斯

中文词源


doss 睡觉,过夜

来自拉丁语dorsum, 背,词源同endorse字母r脱落。引申词义睡觉,特指在简陋的地方过夜。

英文词源


doss
doss: [18] The use of doss in senses associated with ‘lying down on a bed’ comes from an earlier notion of ‘lying on one’s back’. In the 18th century the word was dorse, a borrowing from Latin dorsum ‘back’, but by the 19th century it had become doss, perhaps owing to the influence of French dos. Other English words from the same source include endorse, the adjective dorsal [15], and dossier [19]. This was acquired from French dossier, a derivative of dos, which originally signified a ‘bunch of papers with a label on the back’.
=> dorsal, dossier, endorse

双语例句


1. You can doss down on my floor.
你可以在我的地板上睡。

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2. Still they get their feed all right and their doss.
好歹能填饱肚子,也不缺睡的地方.

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3. Never mind, we can doss down in the car.
不要紧, 我们可以睡在汽车里.

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4. In paris tramps often doss down under the bridges.
巴黎的流浪汉常常睡在桥下.

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5. If these are sweatshops, the Ritz hotel is a doss - house .
如果说这些是血汗工厂, 那么 丽兹 大饭店也是个简陋的客栈.

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