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 pillar ['pilә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 柱子, 栋梁, 台柱, 重要的支持者

[医] 柱, 脚




    pillar
    [ noun ]
    1. a fundamental principle or practice

      2. <noun.cognition>
      science eroded the pillars of superstition
    2. anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower

      3. <noun.shape>
      the test tube held a column of white powder
      a tower of dust rose above the horizon
      a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite
    3. a prominent supporter

      4. <noun.person>
      he is a pillar of the community
    4. a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

      5. <noun.artifact>
    5. (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure

      6. <noun.artifact>


    Pillar \Pil"lar\, a. (Mach.)
    Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs;
    as, a pillar drill.


    Pillar \Pil"lar\, n. [OE. pilerF. pilier, LL. pilare, pilarium,
    pilarius, fr. L. pila a pillar. See {Pile} a heap.]
    1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright,
    insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or
    post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a
    superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an
    ornament.

    Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. --Gen. xxxv.
    20.

    The place . . . vast and proud,
    Supported by a hundred pillars stood. --Dryden.

    2. Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in
    appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay;
    as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state. ``You
    are a well-deserving pillar.'' --Shak.

    By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire. --Milton.

    3. (R. C. Ch.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried
    before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the
    church. [Obs.] --Skelton.

    4. (Man.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground,
    around which a horse turns.

    {From pillar to post}, hither and thither; to and fro; from
    one place or predicament to another; backward and forward.
    [Colloq.]

    {Pillar saint}. See {Stylite}.

    {Pillars of the fauces}. See {Fauces}, 1.

    1. The faults have become more glaring. The trouble is that there is nothing to show that this Antony either was or deserved to be a triple pillar of the world.
    2. Zia, an army general who died Aug. 17 in a plane crash, had made the "Islamization" of Pakistani society a pillar of his policy.
    3. The fourth car smashed into a steel pillar, Lauber said. All of the dead were in the fourth car.
    4. She also makes some good visual jokes with the unusual set, for example, posing Millamant beside a pillar to which the white lily has been tied, and using the actors' cigarette smoke to symbolise their dissemblance.
    5. Ten years ago, Japan exported a third more to the US than to Asia - now the balance is the other way. On the other hand, the US remains the central pillar in foreign and trade policy.
    6. She dropped them off at school and picked them up in the morning." Now, the mother was dead after being killed instantly when a pillar on the freeway sliced through her car.
    7. A central pillar of government policy in holding down prices is a tripartite agreement with the unions and employers.
    8. Perhaps they will be more inclined to mollify their neighbours on property rights than they might have been a few months ago. The legal pillar of the liberalisation plan is the replacement of the criterion of nationality with that of residence.
    9. Hubert de Roncery, a conservative politician, called Jeremie "a pillar" of the Duvalier dictatorship and said there could be "an alliance in the works between the soldiers and the Tonton Macoutes." The Tonton Macoutes were tcceeded his father.
    10. "To repudiate the Resistance means to destroy the principal pillar on which the civil co-existence of the postwar period is built," said five party officials, all former partisans, in a statement.
    11. At a meeting last month in Rome, draft proposals were presented for a clearing and guarantee house - a pillar for the new market - and much of the legal framework has been defined.
    12. This silver coin was known also as the pillar dollar or piece of eight.
    13. "The scheme in this case, ladies and gentlemen, struck at that pillar." Previously, Myerson attorney Frederick Hafetz derided the prosecution case as "a soap opera, not a criminal trial." But Abrams maintained: "This is not a soap opera.
    14. The government introduced legislation today that would repeal the Separate Amenities Act, a pillar of apartheid that has allowed racial segregation of all public amenities for nearly 40 years.
    15. He took a very positive stand and negotiated this." The CTM is the nation's largest and most-powerful labor organization and is a pillar of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
    16. A pillar of the New York legal establishment, Fiske served as U.S. attorney in Manhattan during the Ford administration.
    17. The program in Britain of steadily reducing tax rates has been the central pillar of the nation's recovery and restored repute.
    18. It also recommends a multi-pillar system, with the public pillar providing a basic minimum income, to alleviate poverty in old age and insure citizens against a multitude of risks.
    19. Slovak said the bus smashed into the left side of a parked fire engine; crashed into the left side of a parked truck; collided head-on into a car, injuring a woman inside; and careened into a pillar beneath subway tracks.
    20. Stotler, which remained in operation as of late Friday, is a pillar of the grain-trading establishment at the Board of Trade, tracing its roots to an Illinois grain firm founded in 1919.
    21. The missiles link the European pillar of the alliance to the American pillar.
    22. The missiles link the European pillar of the alliance to the American pillar.
    23. Talk of strengthening the "European pillar" of NATO has been around since President John F. Kennedy coined the term in 1962.
    24. A pillar of smoke blew over the ocean north of Malibu and could be seen for 30 miles to the south.
    25. He is a pillar of the now wobbly system that has kept Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in power for six decades.
    26. Mrs. Thatcher argues that the United States, as leader and defender of the free world, must be heeded, and the special relationship is a pillar of her foreign policy.
    27. Four months ago, someone painted a small, rusty-red swastika on a stone pillar a few steps from the Israeli ambassador's home.
    28. It called for "a qualitative improvement" in Japan's cramped private housing, which it called "the pillar of domestic demand."
    29. Choreographer Jerome Robbins, co-artistic director of the ballet company, called Kirstein "an essential pillar in the life of the community." "I received notice of this with utter dismay and sorrow, and I'm very upset," he said.
    30. Billions of investors' dollars are pouring out of the nation's junk-bond mutual funds, undermining a pillar of support in the already reeling junk market.
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