That expression comes from the days when people slept on beds filled with dried grass or hay.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Well, not up and about; they're presumably lying in their hospital beds, but they're clearly alive.

呃,并不是下床活动,他们大概还躺在病床上,但他们显然活过来了

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of finding beds, especially in the wintertime, for all the homeless people.

他们在帮助所有无家可归的人找到夜宿的地方以安全过冬方面做得很好。

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Doctor Venkataswamy established the first Aravind Eye Hospital in Tamil Nadu state with only eleven beds.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

It's about 1,000 beds on two different sites.

位于它的两处分址。

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The chairs,beds, and other furniture were made by artists who worked in wood, leather,glass,marble,and cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

On either side of the path are what look like river beds of big rocks.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Doctors also suggest avoiding tanning salons and U-V tanning beds to prevent skin cancer.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Each year, nearly thirty million people use indoor tanning beds in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

They spend time in tanning beds in hopes to making their skin darker.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Another study involved more than four hundred college women who used tanning beds.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

With the cultivated method, the ginseng is densely planted in raised beds.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

They also remove large objects such as washing machines, beds and refrigerators.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The name is misleading. Bedbugs do not just live in beds.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

The seats inside could be folded down to make beds.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Tanning beds can also produce high levels of U-V radiation.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Leaf mulch can also be used in flower beds.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Many are asleep on the beds or chairs.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

So instead,they plant lotus seeds on raised beds.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Ballo adds there is also a shortage of beds, and the situation in many homes is one of cramped quarters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

When Hurricane Katrina destroyed their oyster grounds, Henry invested $30,000 of his retirement money to re-seed the beds.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Among them,by Wednesday, will be the hospital ship USNS Comfort, which will add 1,000 beds, and hundreds of medical personnel to the resources available to help the injured.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Residents were asleep in their beds when the 6.3 magnitude quake struck.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

He says the man chased him and others into a nearby building, but - instead of pursuing them - he began shooting recruits still sleeping in their beds.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Of the one million malaria deaths each year, Experts say malaria victims occupy 60 percent of available hospital beds on the continent and reduce economic productivity by $12 billion per year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

When we have shortages in one part of the country of beds or intensive-care beds we can ensure that a network of services provides them in another part of the country."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

I feel like a fish out of water just flapping around in my bed at night" Louis's brother Henry McAnespy showed us a map of the oyster beds they lease from the state.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"We are at 100 percent of our planning level in terms of protection of Gulf islands,national seashore, to protect predominantly the wetlands and estuaries and sea grass beds that are on the backside of the islands."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26