pulpit
名词 n.
英 /ˈpʊlpɪt/|/ˈpʌlpɪt/
美 /ˈpʊlpɪt/|/ˈpʌlpɪt/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
— Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
- Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
- The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
- Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
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An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.
— He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.
- Bully pulpit.
- Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
- The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.
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A bow platform for harpooning.
— [Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit! [Brody:] What for? [Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale. [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!
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A plane's cockpit.
— In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
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词汇关系
词源
From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum and polypus. Piecewise doublet of polypod.
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