bunk
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
发音 bŭngk
英文释义
名词 n.
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One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
— Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
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A hasty departure.
— You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost.
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Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
— What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
- A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
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In early use often in the form the bunk.
— This knife-throwing act is the bunk
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A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
— I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz
- A cot.
- A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
- A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
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A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
— Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
动词 v.
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To occupy a bunk.
— Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
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To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').
— The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
- To provide a bunk.
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To expel from a school.
— She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.
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To depart; scram.
— "They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"
形容词 adj.
- Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
词源 2
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
词源 3
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
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