pedestal

/'pedistl/

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GRE

中文翻译

n. 支柱, 基架, 基座, 基础

vt. 加座, 搁在台上, 支持, 提高...的地位

英文解释

n. a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)

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

词态变化

复数形式:pedestals

常见例句

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. n

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase n

n panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall n the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase n a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it v provide with a dado v cut a dado into or fit into a dado

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal