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.
pulpit 英文释义
1. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
pulpit 双语例句
1. I spoke from the pulpit ad lib.
我在讲坛上发表即兴演说。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court.
他在教堂的讲坛上责骂宫廷的罪恶.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.
长木椅 、 布道坛和祭坛都与教堂朴素高雅的气氛一致.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The pulpit is against horse racing on Sunday.
教士们反对星期天赛马.
来自辞典例句
5. All the young men at Pulpit Hill who were eligible - those who were twenty - one - were going into service.
讲坛山上所有适龄的青年 -- 也就是说,所有二十一 岁 的青年 -- 都去入伍了.
来自辞典例句
pulpit 实用场景例句
The eloquent and ornate carving on a church pulpit was done by Indian.
教堂讲坛上动人而华丽的雕刻出自印度人之手.
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The pulpit is against horse racing on Sunday.
教士们反对星期天赛马.
辞典例句
The American presidency is a bully pulpit.
美国总统一职就是天字第一号讲坛.
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Of course, there are limits to the power of the bully pulpit.
当然, 天字第一号讲坛(白宫)的能力有限.
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The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.
长木椅 、 布道坛和祭坛都与教堂朴素高雅的气氛一致.
《简明英汉词典》
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty.
让我们的讲坛回荡着宗教自由的主张和意见.
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They turn the pulpit into a forum for personal confession and group therapy.
他们把讲坛变为他们个人认罪和集体治疗的论坛.
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Only the president has sufficient stature and bully pulpit to ease relations between different social groupings.
总统才有那种高度和号召力,可以去融合族群.
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Son: Put the clock right behind the pulpit.
儿子: 那就把钟放在讲坛的后面.
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The policy was condemned ( ie by clergymen ) from the pulpit.
该项政策受到神职人员的谴责.
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Her present gaiety sounded to him like laughter heard in the shadow of the pulpit.
在他看来,她现在的欢快简直就象在教堂讲坛的阴暗角落中发出的笑声.
辞典例句
Among the ruins is a pulpit where Xuan Zang had reputedly preached to crowds.
古城中,至今留有唐僧的讲经台.
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He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court.
他在教堂的讲坛上责骂宫廷的罪恶.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
TYPICAL USE : The eloquent and ornate carving a church pulpit was done by Indian Hand.
教堂讲台上生动而华丽的雕刻是印第安人的手笔.
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Even in the pulpit there are moments when mildness of manner is not enough.
即使在布道坛上,也有态度不够温和的时候.
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The eloquent and ornate carving a church pulpit was done by Indian hands.
教堂讲坛上生动而华丽的雕刻是印第安人的手笔.
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From every pulpit, clergymen fulminate against sin.
牧师们在各教学严辞谴责罪行.
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Verse 4 has the only reference to a pulpit in the Bible.
第4节提到的木台,可说是圣经唯一一个提及的讲台.
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All light enters the sanctuary through the glass wall surrounding the pulpit.
所有的光线均来自于环绕着布道坛的通透玻璃墙面.
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But if I ever hear of you in any Baptist pulpit, I'll expose you.
