stilt
stilt 英 [stɪlt] 美 [stɪlt]
n. 高跷；支柱，支撑物 vt. 使踏上高跷
名词复数:stilts
- Stilts are walking devices that make the person wearing them much taller than usual. When you use stilts, you stand on foot rests and walk along far above the ground.
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- n. 高跷；支柱，支撑物
- vt. 使踏上高跷
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1. When holidays came, there were Yangko and stilt shows with people eager to participate.
过节时人们还会参加扭秧歌、踩高跷等表演。
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2. Wilt’s nickname, “Wilt the stilt” was aptly given to the Hall of Fame basketball player.
篮球名人堂给了威尔特一个恰如其人的绰号是“高跷”。
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3. Chalky dirt roads radiate out from the highways, leading to villages of stilt houses or across rice fields.
这些公路往外延伸出去便是灰白色的土路，通往伫立着高脚楼的村庄，或者横穿过稻田。
- stilt (n.) early 14c., "a crutch," a common Germanic word (cognates: Danish stylte, Swedish stylta, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch stelte "stilt," Old High German stelza "plow handle, crutch"), though the exact relationship of them all is unclear, from Proto-Germanic *steltijon, from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)). Application to "wooden poles for walking across marshy ground, etc." is from mid-15c. Meaning "one of the posts on which a building is raised from the ground" is first attested 1690s. As a type of bird with long legs, from 1831. Stilted in the figurative sense of "pompous, stuffy" is first recorded 1820.
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