I lifted the carpet to check the floorboards for woodworm.
我掀开地毯,检查地板里是否有木蛀虫。
2.American EnglishAmETTC the floor in a car 〔汽车的〕底板
Examples from the Corpus
floorboard• They could hear the wildrush of the wind and the pattering of rain against floorboards from the desertedupper floor.• It was the room without any floorboards.• Patti said Monday about an inch of water got on the main floor, and the hardwoodfloorboards had begun to cup.• Mungo set off, taking care to avoid the loosefloorboards which he had already tried to memorize.• The dead plants, the puddle of water spreading out across the floorboards.• He was arrested after officers found a bag of marijuana on the floorboard.• They hid under floorboards and over grocerystores.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + FLOORBOARD | FLOORBOARD + VERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤wooden木地板▸➤bare沒鋪地毯的地板▸➤polished拋光的地板▸➤loose鬆動的地板▸➤creaky, squeaky嘎吱作響的地板VERB + FLOORBOARD➤lift, lift up掀起地板◇Lift some loose floorboards to get at the pipes.掀起幾塊鬆動的地板就接觸到管道。FLOORBOARD + VERB➤creak地板嘎吱響◇The wooden floorboards creaked as he walked down the corridor.他穿過走廊時木地板嘎吱作響。PREPOSITION➤beneath the floorboards, under the floorboards, underneath the floorboards在地板下◇They said that he kept his money under the floorboards.他們說他把錢藏在地板下面。PHRASES➤a gap between the floorboards, a gap in the floorboards (both especially BrE) 地板間的縫隙◇She could hear voices through the gaps in the floorboards.她透過地板間的縫隙能聽見人說話的聲音。