柜子英语：cupboard。
cupboard：
英 [ˈkʌbə汪塌d]、美 [ˈkʌbərd]
n.橱柜;食物柜;衣柜;壁橱
例句：
The piece of furniture serves a dual purpose as a cupboard and as a table.
这件家具有两个用让核途，既作橱柜也作饭桌。
用法
n.the cupboard is bare
(BrE) （指没钱购买）
used to say that there is no money for sth
They are seeking more funds but the cupboard is bare.
他们正在寻求更多的资金，然而根本找不到。
【词源】This expression refers to a children's nursery rhyme about Old Mother Hubbard, who had nothing in her cupboard to feed her dog. 源自一首关于老妈哈伯德的儿歌。她的食橱里没有喂困滑圆狗的东西。
cupboard love
(BrE) （尤指小孩为获得某物的）有所企图的亲热
affection that sb, especially a child, shows towards sb else in order to get sth
a skeleton in the cupboard
also a skeleton in the closet NAmE, BrE
(informal) 隐衷；不可外扬的家丑
something shocking, embarrassing, etc. that has happened to you or your family in the past that you want to keep secret
