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看看詞源字典怎麽講單詞 bolster n.墊子; v.支持

詞源字典說:bolster

O.E.

bolster

"something stuffed so that it swells up," especially "long, stuffed

pillow," from P.Gmc.

*bolkhstraz,

fromPIE*bhelgh-"to swell" (seebelly

). Theverb in fig. sense is from 1508, on the notion of "to support with

a bolster, prop up."bolster

壹種被材料填充的而且脹大(swell

up)的東西,尤其指長、飽滿的枕頭同源belly肚子、腹部

中文叫枕頭,看來英文應該翻譯成枕肚了哈哈,正是在下壹貫的觀點,壹切在人體之中。送壹張圖:長枕頭,bolster