Pyramid
['pɪrəmɪd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt.
(noun.) (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases.
(noun.) a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex.
(verb.) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base.
(verb.) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid.
(verb.) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal.
(verb.) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts.
錄入:丽莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.
(n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.
(n.) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
手打:南希
解釋/意思:
n. a solid figure on a triangular square or polygonal base with triangular sides meeting in a point: (pl.) 'the Pyramids ' or great monuments of Egypt: a game played on a billiard-table in which the balls are arranged in pyramid shape.—adjs. Pyram′idal Pyramid′ic -al having the form of a pyramid.—advs. Pyram′idally Pyramid′ically.—ns. Pyramid′icalness; Pyramid′ion the small pyramidal apex of an obelisk; Pyram′idist one versed in the history of the Pyramids; Pyr′amis (Shak.) a pyramid:—pl. Pyram′ides.—adjs. Pyr′amoid Pyram′idoid.
珍妮整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of pyramids, denotes that many changes will come to you. If you scale them, you will journey along before you find the gratification of desires. For the young woman, it prognosticates a husband who is in no sense congenial. To dream that you are studying the mystery of the ancient pyramids, denotes that you will develop a love for the mysteries of nature, and you will become learned and polished.
編輯:罗伊
例句/造句/用法:
- It was a small pyramid of black, putty-like stuff, exactly like the one upon the table of the study. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- In the construction of a temple or a pyramid not merely was it necessary to have regard to the points of the compass, but care must be taken to have the sides at right angles. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- No, indeedyou shall be indifferent to me, as the shabbiest bouquet in your pyramid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- We paid it, too, for we were purposely spread very far apart over the vast side of the Pyramid. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is more cold within her, than a fire left by gypsies in winter-time, the spent embers crowned by a pyramid of snow. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Great Pyramid put it into his head to go up the Nile. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The answer vouchsafed to Mademoiselle St Pierre from the estrade was given in the gesticulation of a hand from behind the pyramid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It is best to build the pile in the form of a pyramid. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Only a poor girl—only a stroller—only James Harthouse made nothing of—only James Harthouse a Great Pyramid of failure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I said, Sirrah, I will give you a hundred dollars to jump off this pyramid head first. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He touched it once more, wishing us a good journey; and we left him standing on the pavement, as respectable a mystery as any pyramid in Egypt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- This was the sole vestige of democracy in the astounding pyramid. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You shall walk up the pyramids of Egypt! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Only by the use of large and strong ropes could they have moved the massive stones seen in their pyramids and temples. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- At the distance of a few miles the Pyramids rising above the palms, looked very clean-cut, very grand and imposing, and very soft and filmy, as well. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If we were lying in sight of the Pyramids of Egypt, they would not come on deck until after breakfast, now-a-days. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is more famous than the Parthenon; it is older than the Pyramids. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We are about starting to the illustrious Pyramids of Egypt, and the donkeys for the voyage are under inspection. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He landed his troops hurriedly, and the battle of the Pyramids made him master of Egypt. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Pyramids of skulls were his particular architectural fancy; after the storming of Ispahan he made one of 70,000. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:谢尔曼