bedfellow

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One with whom one shares a bed.
    — Yong budding Virgin, faire, and freſh,& ſweet, / Whether away, or whether is thy aboade? / Happy the Parents of ſo faire a childe; / Happier the man whom fauourable ſtars / A lots thee for his louely bedfellow.
  2. An associate, often an otherwise improbable one. broadly
    — They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange bedfellows". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.

词形变化

bedfellows plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bedfellowship strange bedfellow
相关词
bedshare

词源

From Middle English bedfelawe, equivalent to bed + fellow.
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