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dais

/dey-is, dahy-, deys/US // ˈdeɪ ɪs, ˈdaɪ-, deɪs //UK // (ˈdeɪɪs, deɪs) //

菊花,雏菊,大士,菊园

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.

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Examples

  • Yet I have also seen firsthand the disconnect between those skilled teachers and the professional operatives who represent them in the halls of the Legislature and the daises of school boards.

  • Dislodging him from such a square or from the daises that preceded it has proved damned near impossible.

  • A man behind him on the dais has a dust mask slung over his neck.

  • At the center of the dais, facing the nominee, sat the committee chair, Democrat Carl Levin of Michigan.

  • Activities on stage got projected on giant screens flanking the dais, or on the jumbotron-like rig overhead.

  • Imagine the next time Calderon ascends the dais to make a political point.

  • He walked to the dais and delivered a beautiful speech in perfect English.

  • Now she walked forward, followed by the two men, until she had passed the faskeeyeh and had reached the foot of the dais.

  • At the end opposite the entrance is a large sepolcro a mensa, in front of which is a dais elevated two steps.

  • They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

  • The royal dais was protected by a canopy of crimson velvet, trimmed with crimson and gold fringe.

  • Vyrtl took his place on a dais at the head of the table, and his aide arranged the gold-stiffened ceremonial robe.