pedestal

英 ['pedɪstl] 美 ['pedɪstl]

• n. 基架；底座；受人尊敬的地位
• vt. 搁在台上；颂扬

英英释义

Noun:

1. a support or foundation;

   "the base of the lamp"
   

2. a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority);

   "they put him on a pedestal"
   

3. an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The workers put the statue on its pedestal.
   工人们把雕像放到基座上。
2. The two images stand on a pedestal facing the west.
   两个肖像都座落在面向西面的基架。
3. Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built.
   在雕像可以运往美国之前，必须给它选个场地，还要建造一个雕像底座。
4. He put his wife on a pedestal and so was all the more hurt when he found she was capable of deceiving him.
   他把妻子当作偶像崇拜，因此当他知道她是在欺骗他时，他受到的打击实在太大了。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. He desired not to be pedestalled, but to sink into the crowd.
   他不愿高高在上, 而愿深入到民众当中去。

经典引文

• Now the games-captain was tottering if not already fallen from the pedestal.

  出自： J. Hilton

• Women before marriage were princesses on pedestals.

  出自： A. S. Dale

词汇搭配

• pedestal basin 柱托面盆
• knock sb. off his pedestal 使某人不再受尊重...
• put sb. on a pedestal 把某人当偶像崇拜...
• set sb. on a pedestal 崇拜某人
• place sb. on a pedestal 崇拜某人
• pedestal binder 轴架夹板
• pedestal abutment 墩座
• pedestal level 消隐脉冲电平,基准电...
• pedestal pile 护底桩
• pedestal rock 柱顶石
• hinge pedestal 铰接柱,铰接垫座,摇...
• expansion pedestal 伸缩支座
• pedestal crane 基座起重机
• pedestal pulse 基座脉冲
• pedestal body 轴架体,轴架...
• bearing pedestal 轴承座
• pedestal cap 轴架盖
• control pedestal 控制架,控制立柜...
• master pedestal 主台座
• pedestal bearing 支承轴承

近反义词

【近义词】

• stand 站立
• seat 座位
• base 底部
• plinth 柱脚
• dais 讲台
• platform 月台
• podium 讲台
• support 支持
• foundation 根基
• understructure 基础
• foot 脚
• footstall [建]柱子的座坐或台座...