pulpit

[US]/ˈpʊlpɪt/
[UK]/ˈpʊlpɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.讲道坛
高架操纵台
神职人员
Word Forms
复数pulpits

Phrases & Collocations

pulpit preacher

讲坛传道士

Example Sentences

they chopped up the pulpit for firewood.

他们把讲道台劈了当柴火。

anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron.

花烛属植物;马蹄莲;天南星;喜林芋。

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。

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。

he could use the presidency as a bully pulpit to bring out the best in civic life.

总统之位让他在天字一号讲坛上发挥公民的最大价值。

the movies could rival the pulpit as an agency moulding the ideas of the mass public.

作为一种塑造大众思想的手段,电影可与布道抗衡。

Real-world Examples

" This is the power of the bully pulpit, the power of organizing."

“这就是天字第一号讲坛的力量,组织的力量。”

Source: Vox opinion

What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit.

现在,我们可以将这些关于生活的福音移接过来。

Source: The Lost Wealth Classics

When people say you shouldn't be preaching the politics from your pulpit, that is ridiculous.

当人们说你不应该在你的讲坛上宣讲政治时,这是荒谬的。

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

On stage and in the pulpit, moral dilemmas of this kind tend to have a black-and-white clarity.

在舞台上也好,在讲道坛上也好,这类的道德上的是与非往往很明确, 就是非黑即白。

Source: The Economist - Arts

He stands behind the pulpit, which is a wooden box, and he puts the bible on that box.

他站在教堂讲坛的后面,讲坛是一个木制的台子,牧师会把圣经放在那个台子上面。

Source: American English dialogue

Vestiges was warmly blasted from pulpits throughout Britain and far beyond, but also attracted a good deal of more scholarly ire.

《残迹》不仅受到国内外宗教人士的抨击,也饱受众多学术界人士的批判。

Source: A Brief History of Everything

Behind the pulpit the choir fanned steadily.

在讲坛后面, 合唱团稳定地扇动着。

Source: The Sound and the Fury

I shall not speak from this pulpit any more.

我不会再在这个讲台上发言了。

Source: Sophie's World (Original Version)

Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit.

目前,她靠在讲坛的前面。

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

Theodore Parker in his pulpit was not much safer.

讲坛上的西奥多·帕克也好不到哪儿去。

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

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