stool

• n. 凳子；粪便；厕所
• vi. 长新枝；分檗
• vt. 引诱，诱捕

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中文词源

来自古英语 stol,凳子，来自 Proto-Germanic*stolaz,凳子，来自 PIE*sta,站立，词源同 stand,stall.

英文词源

stool

stool: [OE] Although stools are for sitting on, the word’s etymological meaning is ‘stand’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *stōlaz, which was formed from the base *stō-, *sta- ‘stand’ (source of English stand) using the noun suffix *-l- (in much the same way as saddle was formed from a base meaning ‘sit’). The notion of ‘standing’ no doubt passed into ‘sitting’ via an intermediate generalized ‘be positioned or situated’.

In the 15th century stool came to be applied specifically to a ‘commode’, and this led to its use in the following century for an ‘act of defecating’, and hence for a ‘piece of faeces’. Stoolpigeon [19] originated in American English as a term for a decoy pigeon tied to a stool.
=> stall, stand

stool (n.)

Old English stol "seat for one person," from Proto-Germanic *stolaz (cognates: Old Frisian stol, Old Norse stoll, Old High German stuol, German Stuhl "seat," Gothic stols "high seat, throne"), from PIE *sta-lo-, locative of root *sta- "to stand" (cognates: Lithuanian pa-stolas "stand," Old Church Slavonic stolu "stool;" see stet).

Originally used of thrones (as in cynestol "royal seat, throne"); decline in sense began with adoption of chair (n.) from French, which relegated stool to small seats without arms or backs, then to "privy" (early 15c.) and thence to "bowel movement" (1530s).

双语例句

1. The stool had a torn, red plastic seat.

那个凳子的红色塑料座面已经破旧不堪。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He hoisted himself onto a high stool.

他抬身坐上了一张高凳子。

来自《权威词典》

3. He perched on a tall stool by the bar.

他坐在吧台前的高凳子上.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The little dog jumped over the short stool.

小狗跳过了这条小凳子.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The stool is steady enough.

这个凳子很稳.

来自《简明英汉词典》