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lectern

/lek-tern/US // ˈlɛk tərn //UK // (ˈlɛktən) //

讲台,演讲台,讲桌,讲台上

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
    • : a stand with a slanted top, used to hold a book, speech, manuscript, etc., at the proper height for a reader or speaker.

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Examples

  • He then turned the lectern back over to press secretary Jen Psaki.

  • Additionally, someone who has a mutual friend with Johnson called the FBI to report that he was the man in the photo with the lectern.

  • Late Sunday afternoon, Rivera stood behind a lectern in a room outside the Washington locker room, looked into a television screen filled with the faces of reporters at his postgame news conference and exhaled deeply.

  • That you had one of the most important lecterns, and whether it was about crowd size or other things … that as smart a guy as you are, you didn’t tell the truth and that you did damage to the Republic.

  • Very few people ever get a chance to kind of sit at the lectern and kind of essentially be the voice of a president for much of the world.

  • In another photo pair, a crowd listens to a speaker at a lectern in a light-filled conference hall.

  • “Guantanamo is not necessary to keep us safe,” he said, tapping at the lectern.

  • When the court came to order, he approached a lectern and stood at attention.

  • Vicki Jackson, a Harvard Law professor, rises to the lectern and begins her remarks.

  • He was not projecting outward to a crowd like a professor at a lectern.

  • The lectern, as the pulpit-stand in English churches is called, was fashioned of oak taken from Nelson's flagship, the Victory.

  • Parson John looked greyer than usual as he conducted the service and stood at the lectern to read the Lessons.

  • The fine wooden lectern of very late Gothic design has well-carved angels kneeling on the four supporting legs.

  • The lectern he had done his best to burnish; but it was still a cripple from the fire.

  • There was nothing but the saw for these, and Carlton had already sawn the lectern from its grave.