stool
n
1 (often in compounds 常用以構成復合詞) seat without a back or arms, usu for one person 凳子(通常指單人的)
a `bar stool 酒吧間的高凳
a `piano stool 彈鋼琴坐的凳子
sitting on stools around the table 坐在桌子四周的凳子上. =>illus at App 1 見附錄1插圖, page xvi.
2 = footstool (foot1).
3 (usu pl 通常作復數) (medical or fml 醫或文) (piece of) solid waste from the body; faeces 大便; 糞便.
4 (idm 習語) fall between two `stools fail to be or take either of two satisfactory alternatives 兩頭落空
The author seems uncertain whether he is writing a comedy or a tragedy, so the play falls between two stools. 作者似乎拿不定主意是寫喜劇還是寫悲劇, 致使這個劇非驢非馬.