中文词源
pedestal 底座，基座
来自意大利语piedestallo,基座，脚座，来自pie,脚，词源同foot,de,的，stallo,站立，词源同stall.后拼写通俗化。
英语词源
- pedestal (n.)
- 1560s, "base supporting a column, statue, etc.," from Middle French piédestal (1540s), from Italian piedistallo "base of a pillar," from pie "foot" + di "of" + stallo "stall, place, seat," from a Germanic source (see stall (n.1)). Spelling in English influenced by Latin pedem "foot." An Old English word for it was fotstan, literally "foot-stone." Figurative sense of put (someone) on a pedestal "regard as highly admirable" is attested from 1859.
权威例句
- 1. That failure knocked me off my pedestal.
- 那次失败将我赶下了神坛。
- 2. At the very top of the steps was a bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal.
- 就在台阶顶端的基座上有一尊莎士比亚胸像.
- 3. Since childhood, I put my own parents on a pedestal. I felt they could do no wrong.
- 从童年起，我就把自己的父母当作偶像崇拜，觉得他们做的一切都是对的。
- 4. The politician was knocked off his pedestal by his daughter's statements.
- 这位政客由于女儿的一席谈话而不再受人敬重.
- 5. She put him on a pedestal: she would have died for him.
- 她崇拜他: 她宁愿为他而死.
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