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pillow

noun
🔊/ˈpɪləʊ/
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  1. a square or rectangular piece of cloth filled with soft material, used to rest your head on in bed枕头
    • She lay back against the pillows.她半躺半坐靠在枕头上。🔊🔊
    • pillow talk (= conversations in bed between lovers)枕边细语
    • He lay back on the grass using his backpack as a pillow.他用背包当枕头仰卧在草地上。🔊🔊
    • The nurse plumped up the pillows.护士把枕头弄大了。
    • a pillow fight (= a game in which people hit each other with pillows)枕头大战（一场人们用枕头互相殴打的游戏）
    • She buried her head in the pillow and wept.她把头埋在枕头里哭泣。
    • She plumped up the pillows for her daughter.她为女儿把枕头拍松。
    see also throw pillow
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • down
    • feather
    • satin
    • …
    verb + pillow
    • fluff
    • fluff up
    • plump
    • …
    pillow + noun
    • case
    • slip
    • fight
    • …
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  2. (North American English)
    (also cushion British and North American English)
    a cloth bag filled with soft material or feathers that is used, for example, to make a seat more comfortable 枕头
    3. Word OriginOld English pyle, pylu, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch peluw and German Pfühl, based on Latin pulvinus ‘cushion’.

pillow

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they pillow
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he / she / it pillows
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past simple pillowed
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past participle pillowed
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-ing form pillowing
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  1. pillow something (+ adv./prep.) to rest something, especially your head, on an object枕着（某物）
    • She lay on the grass, her head pillowed on her arms.她头枕着胳膊躺在草地上。🔊🔊
    Word OriginOld English pyle, pylu, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch peluw and German Pfühl, based on Latin pulvinus ‘cushion’.