请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 pedestal
释义
pedestalped‧es‧tal /ˈpedəstəl/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpedestal
Origin:
1500-1600 French piédestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie di stallo ‘foot of the stall’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And Murph will come down from that good-guy pedestal a little.
  • Goddesses are made from female stones and the pedestal from male stones.
  • He wanted Asquith on a pedestal and Lloyd George in an isolation hospital.
  • If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.
  • Some examples still had a moulded foot pedestal, while others had four short, cast and chased legs.
  • The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto admire someone very much
also idolise British to admire someone very much, especially a famous person, so that you think everything about them is perfect: · Monroe was idolized by movie fans all over the world.· As a child, Ted idolized his father.
formal to respect someone greatly for their achievements or personal qualities, especially someone in public life: revere by: · Collins was revered by his fellow countrymen.revere somebody as something: · Ondaatje is revered as one of Canada's best writers.
to admire and love someone so much that you cannot see any faults in them: · She absolutely worships Elvis Presley.worship the ground somebody walks on (=to admire absolutely everything about a person): · Garvey worshipped the ground his wife walked on.
to admire someone so much that you treat them or talk about them as though they are perfect -- used especially when you think someone is wrong to do this: · You shouldn't put him on a pedestal. He doesn't deserve it.· I used to put Sarah on a pedestal. Now I don't even like to be in the same room with her.
to greatly admire someone and want to be like them: · His fans hero-worshipped him.· The brother Ian had once hero-worshipped was now an unemployed drug addict.
to think that someone or something is perfect when they are not
also idealise British to consider or show someone or something as perfect, without noticing their faults: · People often idealize the past.· She always idealized her father, who had died when she was five.
to wrongly think that someone is perfect so that you are unable to treat them as an ordinary person: · It's very common for men to put women they love on a pedestal.
if one person thinks that another person can do no wrong , they think they are perfect, even though they really do have faults: · Whatever trouble Eddy gets into, Mum still thinks he can do no wrong,· Of course, the fans believe that the players can do no wrong.
WORD SETS
arcade, nounarch, nounarchitect, nounarchitecture, nounatrium, nounbailey, nounbastion, nouncampanile, nouncapital, nouncaryatid, nouncloistered, adjectivecolonial, adjectiveconservationist, nounCorinthian, adjectivecornice, noundolmen, noundome, noundomed, adjectiveDoric, adjectivefloor plan, nounflying buttress, nounfolly, nounGeorgian, adjectiveGothic, adjectiveground plan, nounIonic, adjectivemodernism, nounmonolith, nounmonument, nounmonumental, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveobelisk, nounopen-plan, adjectivepedestal, nounpediment, nounperistyle, nounpitched, adjectiveplinth, nounplot, nounportico, nounquadrangle, nounrambling, adjectiverampart, nounrococo, adjectiveRomanesque, adjectivescreen, nounspan, nounsplit-level, adjectivesquare, nounstonework, nounterrace, nountracery, nountransept, nountruss, nounvaulted, adjectivevaulting, nounvestibule, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
British English (=a bowl to wash your hands in, supported by a pedestal)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· Last week's leaders Tynemouth were knocked off their pedestal losing their first game of the season.· Romantic shits - they're first to knock you off the pedestal they put you on.
· Another will place philanthropy on a pedestal and yet have a resentful, unforgiving spirit.· Being placed on an artificial pedestal can be of advantage to the Volunteer as innovator.
· Let's face it, possum, there are some who would put me on a pedestal.· If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.· In the courtly love tradition, the woman was put on a pedestal - objectified.· I was the most beautiful, wonderful woman and he put me on a pedestal.
· Many of the dark rocks stand on limestone pedestals, the surrounding rocks having been eroded away.· The Composite Order is used; the columns stand on sculptured pedestals.· In the shadows, in front of an outcrop of rock, stood a pedestal.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • My last boyfriend put me on a pedestal.
  • Another will place philanthropy on a pedestal and yet have a resentful, unforgiving spirit.
  • I was the most beautiful, wonderful woman and he put me on a pedestal.
  • If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.
  • Let's face it, possum, there are some who would put me on a pedestal.
1the base on which a pillar or statue stands:  a Grecian bust on a pedestal2a solid vertical post that supports something such as a table:  the pedestal of the dentist’s chairpedestal basin British English (=a bowl to wash your hands in, supported by a pedestal)3put/place somebody on a pedestal to admire someone so much that you treat them or talk about them as though they are perfect:  Women are both put on a pedestal and treated like second-class citizens.
随便看

 

英语词典包含52748条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 15:15:42