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Pulpit Church Speaking Platform Pʊlpɪt N.(教堂的)讲台;说教台 Eloquent Ornate

Front pulpit
Pron ['pʊlpɪt]
Back 【pulpit】
n.(教堂的)讲台;说教台
The eloquent and ornate carving on a church pulpit was done by Indian hands.
教堂讲台上生动而华丽的雕刻是印第安人的手笔。
Vocab
pulpita platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

If you go into a church an see a minister speaking from a high platform, he's speaking from the pulpit.

Pulpit was originally used to refer to the platform in a church that a preacher speaks from, but we often use it metaphorically for any kind of preaching, whether it's religious or not. If someone is trying to tell everyone else how to live, they're speaking from the pulpit, whether they're preaching the embrace of root vegetables or warning us that we will be attacked by aliens.

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