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单词 doormat
释义
doormat
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɔː.mæt/us
/ˈdɔːr.mæt/

doormatnoun[C](MAT)

apieceofthickmaterialthat is put on thefloorby adoor, used tocleanyourshoeson when you go into abuilding
门口地垫，蹭鞋垫
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Carpets, rugs & other floor coverings
  • bath mat
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  • carpeted
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  • coconut matting
  • fitted carpet
  • fitter
  • mat
  • matting
  • parquet
  • Persian rug
  • pile
  • runner
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doormatnoun[C](PERSON)

informaldisapproving
apersonwhoacceptsbeingtreatedbadlyand does notcomplain:
受气包，出气筒
He may beselfishandinsensitive, but she is a doormat.他可能有些自私、感觉迟钝，但她也有点太逆来顺受了。
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Treating people or animals badly
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  • batten
  • batten onsomeone
  • ill-treatment
  • ill-used
  • impose
  • inflict
  • infliction
  • prey
  • prey onsomething
  • putsomeonethroughsomething
  • put upon
  • tyrannize
  • tyranny
  • uncared for
  • use
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(Definition ofdoormatfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

doormat| American Dictionary

doormat
noun[C]
us
/ˈdɔrˌmæt,ˈdoʊr-/
apieceof usuallyroughmaterialoutsideadoorto ahouseorapartmentwherepeoplecancleantheirshoesbeforeentering
(Definition ofdoormatfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdoormat

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Two rooms even have doormats in front of them.
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Bills that are two, three and four times the previous size are now hitting the doormats.
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The parents were unaware of those huge bills until they dropped on their doormats.
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Criticism of them rises at an even faster rate than does the rise of the rate demands that drop on the nation's doormats.
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Many of them feel, particularly in relation to education officers, that they are being treated little differently from doormats.
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In fact, metering has been introduced in a dozen or so areas and the bills are now hitting the doormats.
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Although we may curse the ever larger quantities of such post that lands on our doormats, it is a highly profitable part of post office business.
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As council tax bills land with a loud and disappointing thud on people's doormats, we should reflect on the failure to increase take-up of council tax benefits.
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Things are beamed into their living rooms or delivered on to their doormats, so the bonding in society that is often a precondition of voting does not take place.
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To show a misogynist and surround him with such walking doormats has the effect, intentional or not, of justifying this behaviour.
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A "facility" might be adoormator it might be a common entrance which was divided two feet inside the building.
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A bill for a £15 a week increase will arrive on thedoormatat the same time as the poll tax bill.
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He has not actually received it, but doubtless it will be sitting on hisdoormatwhen he gets home or wherever it should be.
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Is £100 any compensation for what might happen to a family when a letter accusing a man of fathering a child arrives on thedoormat?
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Is it not indefensible that there is no link at all between consumption and the bill that lands on thedoormat?
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