pillar是什么意思_pillar怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower;"the test tube held a column of white powder"
"a tower of dust rose above the horizon"
"a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite"

a prominent supporter;"he is a pillar of the community"

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure

中英词源

pillar 柱子，桥墩

来自拉丁语pila,柱子，词源同pole,pale,impale.引申词义桥墩。

pillar: pillar: [13] Pillar comes ultimately from Latin pīla ‘pillar’ (source also of English compile, pilaster [16], and pile ‘heap’). In Vulgar Latin this was extended to *pīlāre, which passed into Anglo-Norman piler. This was the form in which English originally acquired it, and the -ar ending was not grafted on to it until the 14th century.
=> compile, pilaster, pile
pillar (n.): c. 1200, from Old French piler "pillar, column, pier" (12c., Modern French pilier) and directly from Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier." Figurative sense of "prop or support of an institution or community" is first recorded early 14c. Phrase pillar to post is c. 1600, originally of tennis, exact meaning obscure.

词态变化

复数 pillars;

权威造句

1. She strove to read the name on the stone pillar.: 她费劲地读着石柱上的名字。

2. He was a pillar of the club for over thirty years.: 30多年来他一直是这个俱乐部的顶梁柱.

3. There is a pillar box at the street corner.: 胡同拐角处有个邮筒.

4. Some people enjoy that kind of life, drifting from pillar to post.: 有些人喜欢这种生活, 到处漂泊游荡.

5. He dropped the letter into the pillar - box.: 他把信丢进邮筒内.

近反义词

column

post

support

upright

相似短语

level pillar 水平矿柱

light pillar 日柱

matching pillar 匹配棒

pillar blast 煤柱爆破

pillar drill 柱架钻床，柱式钻床，柱形钻床

pillar press 柱式压力机

pillar stone 奠基石

seat pillar 座柱

vaulting pillar 筒拱柱

sand pillar 沙卷

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