• n. 垫子；起缓解作用之物；（猪等的）臀肉；银行储蓄
• vt. 给…安上垫子；把…安置在垫子上；缓和…的冲击

来自拉丁词culcita, 垫子，词源同quilt.

cushion

cushion: [14] Ultimately, cushion and quilt are the same word. Both come from Latin culcita ‘mattress, cushion’, which is related to Sanskrit kūrcás ‘bundle’, and both reached English via rather circuitous routes. In Gallo-Roman (the descendant of Latin spoken in France from the 5th to the 9th centuries) culcita underwent a transformation which produced Old French coissin and cussin, which Middle English borrowed as quisshon and cushin.

The complexity of forms spawned by these was quite staggering – the OED records nearly seventy spellings of the word – but by the 17th century things had settled down, with cushion emerging the winner. Cushy [20], incidentally, is quite unrelated, being a borrowing from Hindi khūsh ‘pleasant’.
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cushion (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French coissin "seat cushion" (12c., Modern French coussin), probably a variant of Vulgar Latin *coxinum, from Latin coxa "hip, thigh," or from Latin culcita "mattress." Someone has counted more than 400 spellings of the plural of this word in Middle English wills and inventories. Also from the French word are Italian cuscino, Spanish cojin.

cushion (v.)

1730s, from cushion (n.). In the figurative sense, from 1863. Related: Cushioned; cushioning.

1. Lie face upwards with a cushion under your head.

头枕垫子仰卧。

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2. The subsidies are designed to cushion farmers against unpre-dictable weather.

这些补助金用于减轻农民因难以预测的恶劣天气而遭受的损失。

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3. He sat on a tapestry cushion next to the hearth.

他坐在壁炉边上的一块绣花软垫上。

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4. Use a small cushion to help give support to the lower back.

用一个小靠垫帮助支撑腰部。

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5. The kitten was curled on a cushion on the sofa.

那只小猫在沙发垫子上蜷缩成了一团。

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