"Bed" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 chuáng wèi bed (in hospital, hotel, train etc) / berth / bunk
 chuáng pù bed
 bèi wō quilt wrapped around the body as a tube (traditional bedding) / (contemporary) bedding / quilt / blankets / cover / bed
 wò chuáng to lie in bed / bedridden / bed
 wò pù a bed (on a train) / a couchette
 zhěn xí pillow mat / pillow and mat / bed
 jī chuáng foundation (of building) / bed (e.g. bedrock) / substrate
 dà chuáng fáng hotel room with one double (or queen or king) bed
 shuì jiào to go to bed / to sleep
 ān zhì to find a place for / to help settle down / to arrange for / to get into bed / placement
 qǐ chuáng to get out of bed / to get up
 shàng chuáng to go to bed / (coll.) to have sex
 zhé dié to fold / collapsible / folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
 dān rén one person / single (room, bed etc)
 bìng chuáng hospital bed / sickbed
 zhǎn zhuǎn to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander
 chuáng dān bed sheet / CL:條|条[tiao2],件[jian4],張|张[zhang1],床[chuang2]
 xià dì to go down to the fields / to get up from bed / to leave one's sickbed / to be born
 xiē xi to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
 shuāng rén chuáng double bed
尿 niào chuáng to wet the bed
 jiù qǐn to go to sleep / to go to bed (literary)
 dān rén chuáng single bed / CL:張|张[zhang1]
 luàn gǎo to make a mess / to mess with / to be wild / to sleep around / to jump into bed
 shā fā chuáng sofa bed / sleeper sofa
  fluidized bed / fluid bed
 ān xiē to go to bed / to retire for the night
寿 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
 xíng fáng euphemism for sexual intercourse / to go to bed with sb
 méi céng a coal bed / a coal seam
 lài chuáng to have a lie-in / to dawdle in bed
 qǐ zǎo tān hēi to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
 wò tà a couch / a narrow bed
 tóng chuáng yì mèng lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom) / ostensible partners with different agendas / strange bedfellows / marital dissension
 wò bìng ill in bed / bed-ridden
 pū chuáng to make a bed / to lay bedding
 huā tái flower bed / flower terrace / flower stand
便 biàn pén bed pan
 tóng chuáng crib / children's bed
 xíng jūn chuáng camp bed / bivouac
 lóng chuáng the Emperor's bed
 shàng xià chuáng bunk bed
  collapsible bed
 cài pǔ vegetable field / vegetable bed
 pù plank bed / place to sleep / shop / store / (old) relay station
 bēng to draw tight / to stretch taut / to tack (with thread or pin) / embroidery hoop / woven bed mat
 zǐ bamboo mat / bed mat
 chóu bed curtain / coverlet
 duàn xiù zhī pǐ lit. cut sleeve (idiom) / fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
 qǐn shān zhěn kuài bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
 hūn dìng chén xǐng seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)
 zhěn lěng qīn hán cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom) / fig. cold and solitary existence
 tóng chuáng gòng zhěn to share the bed / (fig.) to be married
便 biàn hú bed urinal / chamber pot
 dǎ dì pù to make one's bed on the floor
 líng chuáng bier / bed kept as it was when the deceased was alive
 chá pù to conduct a bed check
 tīng bed side stand
 bā jiǎo chuáng traditional-style canopy bed
 jié yíng to seize a camp / to surprise the enemy in bed
 tǔ kàng heated brick common bed
 chuáng lì fitted bed sheet
 xián ér gǔ zhī lit. to tune one's zither then play it / fig. to live by the consequences of one's actions / to make one's bed then lie on it
 zhěn biān rén the person who shares your bed / partner / spouse
 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
 hé cáo river bed / channel
 zhòng guā dé guā , zhòng dòu dé dòu lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom) / fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
 tǒng pù a common bed (to sleep many)
 lǎo pó hái zi rè kàng tou wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
 huā chuáng flower bed
 huā chí zi flower bed
 cài qí vegetable field / vegetable bed
 lào kàng to be laid up in bed with illness
 zhuó chuáng to lie down on a bed / (physiology) implantation (attachment of a blastocyst to the lining of the uterus) / (of an oyster larva) to attach to a substrate / (fig.) to take root / to become established
 zhǎn cè bù mèi to toss and turn in one's bed / unable to sleep (idiom)
 pū kàng to make a bed / to lay bedding
 dù lǔ mén xuān yán Policy of the United States with Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf / Truman Proclamation on the Continental Shelf
 hǎi cǎo chuáng seagrass meadow / seagrass bed
  seagrass meadow / seagrass bed
  low dependency hospital bed
 méi céng jiǎ wán coal bed methane
  coal bed degasification / degasification
  high dependency hospital bed
 tuī yí zhì bed load / bottom load / traction load
  bed load / bottom load / traction load
 liú huà chuáng rán shāo fǎ fluidized bed combustion
  enhanced coal bed methane recovery
  enhanced coal bed methane recovery
  fluidized bed reactor
 xún huán fèi téng rán shāo circulating fluidized bed combustion
 xún huán liú huà chuáng rán shāo shì circulating fluidized bed combustor
  pressurized fluidized bed combustion
  rotating fluidized bed combustion
 fèi téng shì liú huà chuáng rán shāo bubbling fluidized bed combustion
  atmospheric fluidized bed combustion
  intensive care hospital bed
  anti-malaria bed net
  cage bed
 chú a kind of mosquito net / bed curtain
 chuáng zhàng bed curtain / mosquito net
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