- 1nA2/ˈsoʊfə/ · /ˈsəʊfə/沙發
A soft, comfortable seat with a back and arms, wide enough for two or three people to sit on.
示範例句 · Example
Mei and her brother sat on the sofa and watched a cartoon together.
逐字美和她的弟弟坐在沙發上並且一起看一部卡通。
sofa 最核心的畫面可以想成「客廳裡那張又軟又長、有靠背有扶手的位子」——寬到兩三人可以一起坐。英文常說 sit on / lie on the sofa（用 on）。跟 couch、settee 很近：sofa 最通用，couch 偏美式口語，settee 偏英式。
常見搭配
sit on the sofa
坐在沙發上
to take a seat on a sofa
Come and sit on the sofa next to me.
lie / sleep on the sofa
躺／睡在沙發上
to rest or sleep stretched out on a sofa
I was so tired that I fell asleep on the sofa.
a comfortable sofa
一張舒適的沙發
a soft sofa that feels good to sit on
They bought a comfortable sofa for the living room.
a leather sofa
皮沙發
a sofa covered in leather
There is a black leather sofa by the window.
sink into the sofa
整個人沉進沙發裡
to sit down deeply into a soft sofa
After a long day, she sank into the sofa and closed her eyes.
a sofa bed
沙發床
a sofa that can open out and be used as a bed
Guests can sleep on the sofa bed in the living room.
core核心畫面
You can picture the long, seat in a living room, facing the television — wide enough for the whole family to squeeze onto, with a soft back to lean into and arms at each end. It is the one piece of furniture in the house you are allowed to sink into rather than sit up on.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sofanoun詞源 1/ˈsəʊ̯fə/
- 1
archaicarchitectureA raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- 2
furniturelifestyleAn upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
- He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
sofaverb詞源 1/ˈsəʊ̯fə/
- 1
To furnish with one or more sofas.
- The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.
- First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery.
- 2
To seat or lay down on a sofa.
- Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence of these relics of refinement she is floored or she may have to submit standing (especially if the doctor is in a hury and meets her at the gate or corner drug store) with an unerring plunge, of a not overly clean index finger, the darksome cavern is penetrated and perhaps, not, a cervix is touched and reveals, of course, a lacerated cervix, just as had been predicted.
- A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.
sofanoun詞源 2
- 1
historicalA slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.
- 1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.
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