| 单词 | abed |
| 释义 | abed (once / 5294 pages) adv When you're abed, you're lying in your bed. You might be late for breakfast with your family because you lie abed long after your alarm goes off. The word abed is very old fashioned, and you're most likely to come across it in a book. A character in a 19th century novel might lie abed all day before being diagnosed with scarlet fever, for example. Abed is rooted in the Old English on bedde, or "in bed, from the sense of a- meaning "on" — which is also found in words like "alive," "asleep," and "afoot" — and bed. WORD FAMILYabed: abeds USAGE EXAMPLESLast year, Abed won the 2015 World Food prize for his “unparalleled” work on reducing poverty in Bangladesh and 10 other nations. Time(Dec 02, 2016) Months after IS swept into Shura, the militants killed Abed’s brother because he was a police officer. Seattle Times(Nov 01, 2016) It was just as sinful to her to lie abed after light as it was to be abroad after dark. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) adv in bed |
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