pedestal

pedestal['pedistəl]

• n.
  • 柱脚；基座；底座；轴架
  • 基础；根基；支撑
  • (尤指作为偶像崇拜的)显要地位
  • 【机械学】轴架，轴承
  • (座舱内的)操纵台
  • 【无线电】消隐(熄灭)脉冲电平
  • (电视中的)消隐
• vt.
  • 把…置于座上，给…装上座子：

    to be pedestalled in an alcove

    放在壁龛内的基座上

  • 提高…的地位，颂扬：

    He desired not to be pedestalled, but to sink into the crowd.

    他期望的不是受到颂扬，而是深入到群众中去。

• 短语:
  • knock someone off his pedestal 使某人威信扫地，使某人不再受尊重
  • put (或set) someone upon(或on)a pedestal 把某人当作偶像崇拜(或理想人物，了不起人物)，崇敬某人
• 变形:

  vt.pedestaled或-talled.pedestaling或pedestalling

• on one's last legs
• barometric switch
• apply one’s mind to
• Irish diamond
• railing
• dunnies
• second-sighted
• hang upon
• accommodation payment
• swellfish
• aloofly
• naw
• ustults
• privet hawk
• October
• call for sth
• in-winter
• Sangraal, Sangreal, Sangrail
• definability
• campily
• BLQ
• ADR
• have a flick through sth
• B trace
• shipping agents
• treat sb to
• liberias
• blueprint paper
• solid drilling
• oxalises
• corporatizes
• be all thumbs
• categorizer
• Common Cause
• double-list sorting
• equates
• nematocerous
• headrests
• zebrula
• grouse
• to the best advantage
• hellbox
• supernormally
• Master of Arts
• medium-range ballistic missile
• vancomycins
• frontal sinuses
• upper variation
• headbox
• gift token
• blot one's copy book
• dieselization
• lemon test
• seven-league
• giggings
• self-contradictings
• jrs
• hyperaesthesias
• inversion spectrum
• Cordaitales
• orgastic
• hermetically
• Malinowskian
• saltwater
• give someone the ax e
• mythicized
• confusion reflector
• excussions
• answer criticism / charges / accusations etc
• cocksuckers
• sycophancy
• butterfly table
• e.p.
• regenerative cells
• loftier
• hold sth in balance
• programmable read-only memory
• min.
• hemocyte
• for sb’s account
• Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
• film fan
• showns
• reactively
• fairy lamp
• communitaire
• machine rifle
• access control
• great with
• go / run / flash etc through sb's
• gap scatter
• razor-thin victory / margin
• even-odd system
• within one's province
• natural-coloured
• Moore, Marianne
• Sur
• dhols
• Pooh-Bahs
• antimicrobials