cupboard: [14] A cupboard was originally exactly that: a ‘board’, or table, on which cups (and other pieces of crockery or plate) were placed for display. Essentially, it was what we would now call a sideboard. The modern sense, ‘recess with doors and shelves’, did not develop until the 16th century. (An earlier, and now largely superseded, term for ‘cupboard’ was press [14]. Cabinet is roughly contemporary with cupboard in its modern sense, and closet developed this meaning in the 17th century.)
cupboard (n.)
late 14c., "a board or table to place cups and like objects," from cup (n.) + board (n.1). As a type of closed cabinet for food, etc., from early 16c.
雙語例句
1. There's an extra blanket in the bottom drawer of the cupboard.
壁櫥最下面的抽屜里還有一條多余的毯子。
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2. It was time to consign his bat and glove to the cupboard.
該把他的球棒和手套擱進柜子里了。
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3. The kitchen cupboard was stocked with tins of soup.
廚房的櫥柜里堆滿了罐裝湯。
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4. There's an extra duvet in the bottom drawer of the cupboard.