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卧床

wò chuáng

2-character word Traditional 臥床

What 卧床 means

1. to lie in bed
2. bedridden
3. bed

The characters in 卧床

• 卧wòto lie; to crouch
• 床chuángbed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on); bed…

Example sentences

• 珍生病卧床。
  Zhēn shēngbìng wòchuáng.
  Jane is sick in bed.
• 他得卧床休息.
  Tā de wòchuáng xiūxi.
  He had to stay in bed.
• 他现在卧床不起。
  He is confined to bed now.
• 汤姆已经因病卧床三周了。
  Tāngmǔ yǐjīng yīn bìng wòchuáng sān zhōu le.
  Tom has been sick in bed for three weeks.
• 他的腿部肌肉在他卧床不起的七个月中萎缩了。
  Tā de tuǐbù jīròu zài tā wòchuáng bù qǐ de qī gè yuè zhōng wěisuō le.
  The muscles in his legs had atrophied during the seven months he was bedridden.
• 若有人争斗，一人以石头或拳头打了邻人，虽未致死，却使其卧床不起：若其后能起身、扶杖行走于外，则打人者可免于刑责，但须赔偿对方因此耽误的工钱，并承担其医治的费用。
  If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.