rostrum
/ros-truhm/US // ˈrɒs trəm //UK // (ˈrɒstrəm) //
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n.名词 noun
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plural ros·tra [ros-truh], /ˈrɒs trə/, ros·trums.
- : any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
- : a pulpit.
- : a beaklike projection from the prow of a ship, especially one on an ancient warship for ramming an enemy ship; beak; ram.
- : Roman Antiquity. the raised platform, adorned with the beaks of captured warships, from which orations, pleadings, etc., were delivered.
- : Biology. a beaklike process or extension of some part; rostellum.
- : British Theater. a raised platform or dais, especially one with hinged sides that can be folded and stored within a relatively small space.
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It was hard not to get mixed messages from the rostrum, too.
That nominee had three challenges as he took the rostrum in Tampa.
Flux Rostrum is a genial 35-ish man with dirty-blond dreadlocks.
Rostrum flavum, paulo altius, et magis carinatum, quam rostrum M. viridis.
Who has copied the Flavian amphitheatre except as a convenient form for exhibitors on the stage, or for the rostrum of an orator?
Every knot of men had its grievance; every flag in the pavement was a rostrum.
The Senate floor was to him a popular rostrum and sacred stump.
There is little pleasure to be on the lecture-rostrum for a narrator sensible to the pulses of his audience.
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