名詞 mattress:

1. a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed

1. A narrow, hard bed or straw-filled mattress.
   草墊一種窄的硬床或裝滿草的墊子
2. An inflatable mattress.
   一個充氣床墊
3. The mattress was hard and unyielding.
   這床墊很硬，沒有彈性。
4. I'll go to buy a new mattress for my bed.
   我要去給我的床買個新床墊。

mat.tress

n.（名詞）

A usually rectangular pad of heavy cloth filled with soft material or an arrangement of coiled springs, used as or on a bed.
褥墊，床墊：通常為長方形的棉布墊，內(nèi)裝柔軟材料或排列好的彈簧，常用于床上
An airtight inflatable pad used as or on a bed or as a cushion.
氣墊：充氣墊子，用作床或放在床上
A closely woven mat of brush and poles used to protect an embankment, a dike, or a dam from erosion.
（用以護堤、壩等的）柴排，沉排，沉床：荊棘和桿子的密織席，用于保護堤、壩，使不受侵蝕

來源：
Middle English mattresse
中古英語 mattresse
from Old French materas
源自 古法語 materas
from Old Italian materasso
源自 古意大利語 materasso
and from Medieval Latin matracium
并源自 中世紀拉丁語 matracium
both from Arabic maúraô [place where something is thrown, mat, cushion]
都源自 阿拉伯語 maúraô [放于某物被扔、鋪席于或掩蓋的地方]
from úaraôa [to throw]
源自 úaraôa [扔，擲]

<注釋>The history of the wordmattress is a small lesson in the way amenities have come to Europe from the Middle East. During the earlier part of the Middle Ages,Arabic culture was more advanced than that of Europe.One of the amenities of life enjoyed by the Arabs was sleeping on cushions thrown on the floor.Derived from the Arabic wordúaraôa, .to throw,. the word maúraô meant .place where something is thrown. and .mat, cushion..This kind of sleeping surface was adopted by the Europeans during the Crusades,and the Arabic word was taken into Italian (materasso ) and then into Old French ( materas ), from which comes the Middle English wordmateras , first recorded in a work written around 300. The Arabic word also became Medieval Latinmatracium, another source of our word.
mattress 這個詞的由來是康樂設(shè)施從中東傳到英國的一個小小見證。 中世紀早期，阿拉伯人的文化要比歐洲文化進步。阿拉伯人生活中享受的一個康樂設(shè)施就是睡在鋪在地上的墊子上。由阿拉伯語中的詞taraha .扔.派生出來的詞 matrah ， 意思是.鋪著東西的地方.和.墊子，沙發(fā).。這種睡覺方式被十字軍東征時期的歐洲人采用，這個阿拉伯詞因此進入意大利語(materasso )和古法語( materas )。 從這兩個詞又引出最早出現(xiàn)于300年左右的一部著作中的中古英語詞匯materas 。 這個阿拉伯詞同時也被收入中世紀拉丁語，即matracium ， 這也是我們這個單詞的另一個來源