日用品英语趣说之carpet地毯

Carpet 地毯 We all enjoy quiet. That is one of the main reasons why floors and stairs are carpeted. It's the floor of your living room covered with a wall-to-wall carpet？ There is nothing special about the phrase “sweep the carpet”. But “sweep something under the carpet ”is an idiom, a figure of speech. It means hide something when it's ashamed of ”. A family scandal is often swept under the carpet. When a head of state visits another country，he is usually given “the red-carpet treatment”. A red carpet is really rolled out for him to walk on. If a relative of yours is coming from afar to visit your parents, they will naturally give him “the red-carpet treatment”，that is ，a warm, hearty welcome. 我们都喜欢安静。地板和楼梯之所以铺上地毯，这是其中的一个原因。你起居室里的地板是不是全铺了地毯呢？