pulpit
pulpit 英 [ˈpʊlpɪt] 美 [ˈpʊlpɪt, ˈpʌl-]
n. 讲道坛；高架操纵台；神职人员
名词复数:pulpits
- If you go into a church and see a minister speaking from a high platform, he's speaking from the pulpit.
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- n. 讲道坛；高架操纵台；神职人员
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1. He thought of his paper as a pulpit.
他当初把这份报纸当做一个讲道坛。
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2. Such was the position which the minister occupied, as he bowed his head forward on the cushions of the pulpit, at the close of his Election Sermon.
当我们的这位牧师结束了他在庆祝选举日的布道，在讲坛的靠垫上向前垂着头时，所处的正是这样一个高位。
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3. "From now on, we will hear about the future and not the past, " he announced, and invited Sophie and her mother to the pulpit, where -- together -- they lit the candles.
“从此刻开始，我们就听听我们的未来，把过去暂且放下”，他宣布，并且邀请索菲和她的妈妈一起到讲坛上，这那里他们一起点燃了蜡烛。
- pulpit (n.) early 14c., from Late Latin pulpitum "raised structure on which preachers stand," in classical Latin "scaffold; stage, platform for actors," of unknown origin. Also borrowed in Middle High German as pulpit (German Pult "desk"). Sense of "Christian preachers and ministers generally" is from 1560s. Pulpiteer, old contemptuous term for "professional preacher," is recorded from 1640s.
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