pulpit
英['p?lp?t]
美['p?lp?t]
- n. 講道壇；高架操縱臺；神職人員
詞態變化
復數:?pulpits;
助記提示
1. cockpit <====> pulpit.
2. 記憶方法：pull + pit => pulpit => 將其拉上講壇。
3. 該詞其后的一些引申義很可能受到了單詞 pit 的影響。
4. “布道石”，是一個非常詩意化的翻譯，也是挪威旅游網站的官方譯名。挪威語為“Preikestonlen”，英語則為“Pulpit Rock”。沒有找到什么典故，猜想稱為“布道石”大約是因為它的形狀，對外國人來講仿佛教堂里的牧師講臺，而對中國人，則太適合想象中的古人或者仙人，從天而降，在這樣壯闊的風景中授業布道了吧？=> http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6484adc00100rgo5.html
5. bully pulpit: 天字第一號講壇（白宮）.
中文詞源
pulpit 小講壇
來自拉丁語pulpitum,講經臺，小講壇，詞源不詳。可能來自PIE*ped,腳，詞源同foot,pilot.字母d,l音變，比較pilot.
英文詞源
- pulpit
- pulpit: [14] Classical Latin pulpitum, a word of unknown origin, denoted ‘platform, stage’. This sense was originally carried over into English (Miles Coverdale, in his 1535 translation of II Chronicles 6:13, wrote ‘Salomon had made a brasen pulpit … upon the same stood he’, where the 1611 Authorized Version was later to have ‘Solomon had made a brasen scaffold … and upon it he stood’).
But it was eventually swamped by a subsidiary sense which emerged in medieval Latin: pulpitum had been applied particularly to platforms on which people stood to speak in public, and in ecclesiastical usage it came to denote a ‘raised structure on which preachers stand’. - pulpit (n.)
- early 14c., from Late Latin pulpitum "raised structure on which preachers stand," in classical Latin "scaffold; stage, platform for actors," of unknown origin. Also borrowed in Middle High German as pulpit (German Pult "desk"). Sense of "Christian preachers and ministers generally" is from 1560s. Pulpiteer, old contemptuous term for "professional preacher," is recorded from 1640s.
雙語例句
- 1. I spoke from the pulpit ad lib.
- 我在講壇上發表即興演說。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court.
- 他在教堂的講壇上責罵宮廷的罪惡.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.
- 長木椅 、 布道壇和祭壇都與教堂樸素高雅的氣氛一致.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The pulpit is against horse racing on Sunday.
- 教士們反對星期天賽馬.
來自辭典例句
- 5. All the young men at Pulpit Hill who were eligible - those who were twenty - one - were going into service.
- 講壇山上所有適齡的青年 -- 也就是說,所有二十一 歲 的青年 -- 都去入伍了.
來自辭典例句