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on the nightstand
I put my phone on the nightstand before going to sleep.
睡觉前我把手机放在床头柜上。
床头柜；床头几
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床头柜；床头几
a small table beside a bed
I put my phone on the nightstand before going to sleep.
睡觉前我把手机放在床头柜上。
美式英语
She keeps a glass of water on her nightstand every night.
她每天晚上都在床头柜上放一杯水。
He put his glasses and phone on the nightstand before going to sleep.
睡觉前，他把眼镜和手机放在床头柜上。
The lamp on the nightstand wasn't bright enough for reading.
床头柜上的台灯不够亮，不适合看书。
I put my phone on the nightstand before going to sleep.
睡觉前我把手机放在床头柜上。
The wastebasket is next to the nightstand.
废纸篓在床头柜旁边。
She bought a nightstand with two drawers.
她买了一个带两个抽屉的床头柜。
Not this
I put the phone on nightstand.
Use this
I put the phone on a nightstand.
nightstand 是可数名词单数，第一次提及需要加不定冠词 a/an；中文没有冠词，容易漏掉。
Not this
There are two nightstand in the bedroom.
Use this
There are two nightstands in the bedroom.
可数名词复数要加 -s；two 后接复数形式 nightstands。
Not this
He set the glass in the nightstand.
Use this
He set the glass on the nightstand.
表示放在床头柜的表面上用介词 on；in 表示在内部（如抽屉里），与“放上面”的意思不符。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
在床头柜上
She put her glasses on the nightstand.
她把眼镜放在床头柜上。
床头柜抽屉
He keeps his reading glasses in the nightstand drawer.
他把老花镜放在床头柜抽屉里。
床头柜台灯
I turned off the nightstand lamp and went to sleep.
我关掉床头柜上的台灯，然后去睡觉。
在床头柜旁边
The phone charger is beside the nightstand.
手机充电器在床头柜旁边。
一个小床头柜
There is a small nightstand next to the bed.
床边有一个小床头柜。
Use nightstand naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
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想象夜晚（night）床边立着（stand）的小柜子，night+stand=床头柜。
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常居家、卧室布置、家具选购 「nightstand」是美国英语中“床头柜”的常见说法，属于中性日常用语，口语和书面语中都比较自然，多用于家居生活、卧室布置或购买家具等场景。
night, light, and bright rhyme with the first syllable of nightstand (/naɪt/). stand and understand match the final component /stænd/. standard is a lookalike: it starts with /stænd/ but has an extra /ərd/ and different stress, so it does not rhyme with nightstand.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.