rostrum
rostrum 英 [ˈrɒstrəm] 美 [ˈrɑstrəm]
n. 讲坛；演讲者；嘴；喙
名词复数:rostra
- You've probably listened to speakers who stood on a raised platform, or watched the winners in sports competitions step up onto a platform to accept their awards. The platform they're standing on is called a rostrum.
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- n. 讲坛；演讲者；嘴；喙
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1. He elbowed his way through the crowd towards the rostrum.
他用肘推着从人群中向讲坛挤过去.
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2. Teachers from the rostrum, to see the children paintings.
老师走下讲台, 看看孩子们画的画.
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3. He pushed his way through the crowd to the the front of rostrum.
他从人群中挤到讲台前.
- rostrum (n.) 1540s, from Latin rostrum, name of the platform stand for public speakers in the Forum in ancient Rome. It was decorated with the beaks of ships taken in the first naval victory of the Roman republic, over Antium, in 338 B.C.E., and the word's older sense is "end of a ship's prow," literally "beak, muzzle, snout," originally "means of gnawing," instrument noun form of rodere "to gnaw" (possibly from an extended form of PIE root *red- "to scrape, scratch, gnaw"). Compare claustrum "lock, bar," from claudere "to shut." Extended sense of any platform for public speaking is first recorded 1766. Classical plural form is rostra.
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