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pedestal n.基架；底座；受人尊敬的地位vt.搁在台上；颂扬 (1) 工人们把雕像放到基座上。(2) 两个肖像都座落在面向西面的基架。(3) 在雕像可以运往美国之前，必须给它选个场地，还要建造一个雕像底座。(4) 他把妻子当作偶像崇拜，因此当他知道她是在欺骗他时，他受到的打击实在太大了。(5) 他不愿高高在上, 而愿深入到民众当中去。 Think of the physical stand or support when you use pedestal figuratively to mean a place of superiority. If you put someone on a pedestal, you honor that person or place him or her above you, as you might a piece of valued art. If you want to knock someone off his or her pedestal, you think that person is too arrogant and you want to do something to humble him or her.

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英 ['pedɪstl] 美 ['pedɪstl] (1) The workers put the statue on its pedestal.(2) The two images stand on a pedestal facing the west.(3) Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built.(4) He put his wife on a pedestal and so was all the more hurt when he found she was capable of deceiving him.(5) He desired not to be pedestalled, but to sink into the crowd. A pedestal is a base or foundation that supports something like a statue or work of art. Think of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. where a statue of Lincoln sitting in a chair is raised up on a huge pedestal. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]（雕像等的）底座，基座 A pedestal is the base on which something such as a statue stands. ...a larger than life sized bronze statue on a granite pedestal.安放在花岗岩底座上的比真人尺寸还要大的青铜雕像2[N-COUNT 可数名词]受崇拜/ 不再受崇拜 If you put someone on a pedestal, you admire them very much and think that they cannot be criticized. If someone is knocked off a pedestal they are no longer admired. Since childhood, I put my own parents on a pedestal. I felt they could do no wrong...从童年起，我就把自己的父母当作偶像崇拜，觉得他们做的一切都是对的。That failure knocked me off my pedestal.那次失败将我赶下了神坛。

英语单词	pedestal
英美音标	英 ['pedɪstl] 美 ['pedɪstl]
中文释义	n.基架；底座；受人尊敬的地位 vt.搁在台上；颂扬
英语例句	(1) The workers put the statue on its pedestal. (2) The two images stand on a pedestal facing the west. (3) Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built. (4) He put his wife on a pedestal and so was all the more hurt when he found she was capable of deceiving him. (5) He desired not to be pedestalled, but to sink into the crowd.
中文例句	(1) 工人们把雕像放到基座上。 (2) 两个肖像都座落在面向西面的基架。 (3) 在雕像可以运往美国之前，必须给它选个场地，还要建造一个雕像底座。 (4) 他把妻子当作偶像崇拜，因此当他知道她是在欺骗他时，他受到的打击实在太大了。 (5) 他不愿高高在上, 而愿深入到民众当中去。
vocabulary简明	A pedestal is a base or foundation that supports something like a statue or work of art. Think of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. where a statue of Lincoln sitting in a chair is raised up on a huge pedestal.
vocabulary扩展	Think of the physical stand or support when you use pedestal figuratively to mean a place of superiority. If you put someone on a pedestal, you honor that person or place him or her above you, as you might a piece of valued art. If you want to knock someone off his or her pedestal, you think that person is too arrogant and you want to do something to humble him or her.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（雕像等的）底座，基座 A pedestal is the base on which something such as a statue stands. ...a larger than life sized bronze statue on a granite pedestal. 安放在花岗岩底座上的比真人尺寸还要大的青铜雕像 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]受崇拜/ 不再受崇拜 If you put someone on a pedestal, you admire them very much and think that they cannot be criticized. If someone is knocked off a pedestal they are no longer admired. Since childhood, I put my own parents on a pedestal. I felt they could do no wrong... 从童年起，我就把自己的父母当作偶像崇拜，觉得他们做的一切都是对的。 That failure knocked me off my pedestal. 那次失败将我赶下了神坛。

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