wadding
wadding — 名詞
1. Soft, often fluffy material that is placed inside a container or a piece of clot
填塞材料
用於填充保護或塑形的柔軟材料
Soft, often fluffy material that is placed inside a container or a piece of clothing to protect its contents or to give it a particular shape.
Shirin packed the vase with wadding before placing it in the box.
Shirin 在把花瓶放進箱子前，先用填塞材料把它包好。
collocation: packed with wadding
The tailor used wadding to give the jacket shoulders a neat, rounded shape.
那位裁縫用填塞材料讓外套的肩部呈現整齊的圓弧形狀。
use of wadding for shaping garments
Stefan gently wrapped the old photograph in layers of soft wadding.
Stefan 小心翼翼地把舊照片包在好幾層軟質填塞材料裡。
collocation: wrapped in wadding
Adaeze put wadding inside the cloth bag to help it keep its shape.
Adaeze 在布包裡放了些填塞材料，讓它保持形狀。
- packed with wadding
- wrapped in wadding
- layer of wadding
- sheet of wadding
- soft wadding
- padding
more general — padding can be any soft layer for comfort or protection (e.g. seat padding), while wadding is specifically loose or sheet material used to fill a space.
- stuffing
common for cushions and toys; stuffing is often bulkier and less uniform than wadding.
- filling
focuses on the function of occupying space rather than the material itself.
用法筆記
Wadding is uncountable — you cannot say 'a wadding' or 'waddings'. It is often made of cotton, wool, or synthetic fibres and is cut into sheets or pulled into loose handfuls for use.