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set on pedestal

/ped-uh-stl/US // ˈpɛd ə stl //UK // (ˈpɛdɪstəl) //

设在基座上,设在基座上的,镶嵌在基座上,镶嵌在基座上的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ped·es·taled, ped·es·tal·ing or ped·es·talled, ped·es·tal·ling.

    • : to put on or supply with a pedestal.

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Examples

  • 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.