pedestals

基本解释

• n.基架；底座；受人尊敬的地位
• vt.搁在台上；颂扬

同根派生

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• The workers put the statue on its pedestal.
  工人们把雕像放到基座上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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.)

• 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。