pylon
pylon 英 [ˈpaɪlən] 美 [ˈpaɪˌlɑn]
n. 桥塔；指示塔；高压线铁塔
名词复数:pylons
- A pylon is a bar or rod that supports some structure, like a bridge or a highway overpass. You might notice the pylons underpinning your city's elevated train tracks.
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- n. 桥塔；指示塔；高压线铁塔
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1. It extends six legs into the seabed to stabilize itself before installation of the pylon on which each turbine sits.
在安装每架涡轮机的支柱前，这艘安装船先将六条腿伸入海床中，以便稳定船只本身。
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2. The several thousand tons of steel deck and pylon were fabricated in a factory in Rotterdam, then carried across the sea by a barge labouring in the churning swell.
数千吨的钢铁桥面和桥塔从鹿特丹的工厂生产出来，然后由驳船运载着在翻滚的海浪中缓缓穿过大洋。
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3. In an undated picture, a mock-up of the A-12 spy plane sits perched upside down on a testing pylon at Area 51—part of radar tests to reveal revealed how visible, or invisible, the design was to radar.
在一张未标明日期的图片中，一架实物模型的A-12间谍飞机倒挂着停放在51区的一个测试塔上，这是为了测试该飞机的外观在雷达上可视或不可视的程度。
- pylon (n.) 1823, "gateway to an Egyptian temple," from Greek pylon "gateway," from pyle "gate, wing of a pair of double gates; an entrance, entrance into a country; mountain pass; narrow strait of water," of unknown origin. Meaning "tower for guiding aviators" (1909) led to that of "steel tower for high-tension wires" (1923).
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