a piece of thick material like a small carpet that is used for covering or decorating part of a floor 小地毯；垫子 
a hearth rug (= in front of a fireplace) 壁炉前的小地毯 an oriental rug 东方地毯。 a sheepskin rug 羊皮地毯 A Persian rug covered the polished floor. 一块波斯地毯铺在光亮的地板上。 There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around. 有好几张亮丽的毯子铺在地上。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hearth
- oriental
- Persian
- …
- make
- weave
- cover something
- (British English)
a piece of thick warm material, like a blanket, that is used for wrapping around your legs to keep warm （盖腿的）厚毯子 a travel rug 旅行毛毯 a tartan rug 花格小地毯
- (informal, humorous)
a toupee (= a small section of artificial hair, worn by a man to cover an area of his head where hair no longer grows) 地毯： 假发
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a type of coarse woollen cloth): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect rugga ‘coverlet’, Swedish rugg ‘ruffled hair’; related to rag ‘piece of cloth’. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th cent.
Idioms
pull the rug (out) from under somebody’s feet
- (informal)
to take help or support away from somebody suddenly 突然停止帮助（或支援）
sweep something under the rug (North American English)
(also sweep something under the carpet British and North American English)
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 rug. 早先一份牵连政府的报告被轻易地掩盖了。