set on pedestal 的 2 个定义
- an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- a supporting structure or piece; base.
- Furniture. a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other.a columnar support for a tabletop.
- Building Trades. a bulge cast at the bottom of a concrete pile.
ped·es·taled, ped·es·tal·ing or ped·es·talled, ped·es·tal·ling.
- to put on or supply with a pedestal.
set on pedestal 近义词
等同于 exalt
更多set on pedestal例句
- A great deal of the joy of watching the film is thanks to Mads Mikkelsen, whose face reminds me of a statue you might find carved into rock and resting on a museum pedestal.
- They build you up too much and put you on that pedestal, and then they knock you down.
- Heeding Ditka, who would whisper, “they put you on that pedestal and then they knock you down,” is a tricky task.
- For 15 years, the 35-year-old worked to “put people in their best light, to put them on a pedestal.”
- Those notions placed women on a pedestal – but also denied them opportunities.
- But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.
- Almost a decade later Olmstead has stepped down from her pedestal to focus more of her time on sports and friends.
- Her very first sculpture, a metallic chrome unicorn aptly titled “Space Oracle,” sits on a pedestal directly in front.
- The151-foot newborn waited in the harbor on her 171-foot pedestal, a huge French flag fluttering over her dark copper face.
- A delicious marble Cupid appeared to have just alighted on his pedestal at the upper end of the room.
- She resented his sudden drop from his pedestal, for he looked sentimental and somewhat sheepish.
- Next moment Tom Brown sent a bullet straight into his heart, and his tail made a splendid flourish as he fell off his pedestal!
- He was sumptuously buried in Kensal Green, where a marble pedestal carries his portrait and his epitaph.
- Here and there we will find a boulder perched on a pedestal of ice, which indicates a recent down-wearing of the field.
- The pedestal of this clock represented in bas-relief the birth of astronomy on the Egyptian plains.