- [countable, uncountable]
a piece of thick woven material made of wool, etc., used to cover the floor of a room or stairs; the material used for carpets 地毯 
He spent the morning laying the new carpet. 他花了一上午铺新地毯。 a bedroom carpet 卧室地毯 - (British English)
We have fitted carpets (= carpets from wall to wall) in our house. 我们家的地上都铺了地毯。 a roll of carpet 一卷地毯
Extra ExamplesI'm having the carpets fitted today. 我今天要找人来铺地毯。 The cat curled up on the carpet. 猫蜷卧在地毯上。 The grey vinyl floor gave way to carpet tiles. 灰聚乙烯基地面换成了方块地毯。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep-pile
- lush
- plush
- …
- roll
- make
- weave
- fit
- …
- design
- runner
- tile
- …
- on a/the carpet
- [countable] carpet (of something) (literary)
a thick layer of something on the ground 覆盖地面的一层厚东西 a carpet of snow 一层厚厚的雪
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- thick
- lush
- …
- form
- carpet of
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a thick fabric used as a cover for a table or bed): from Old French carpite or medieval Latin carpita, from obsolete Italian carpita ‘woollen counterpane’, based on Latin carpere ‘pluck, pull to pieces’.
Idioms
(be/get called) on the carpet
sweep something under the carpet
(US English also sweep something under the rug)
to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done 掩盖某事 An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the carpet. 早先一份牵连政府的报告被轻易地掩盖了。