sickbed
/sik-bed/US // ˈsɪkˌbɛd //
病床,病床上,病榻,病床上的人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the bed used by a sick person.
Examples
His ailing mother emerged from her sickbed to ask reporters for Lana Turner’s address so she could write her a letter.
To prove that this was not so, these men wore the clothes of sick people, and even slept on the sheets taken from the sickbed.
For example, it is not right to leave the sickbed of one dear to us because his pains are unbearable.
The father lay in the parlor, on his sickbed, and groaned and complained and cursed the hour of his birth.
For the next month his time was almost wholly taken up by the sickbed, and in the first week of December the end came.
What he wants to see again, he writes now further from his sickbed, are the simple flowers of our spring.
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