Rostrum
['rɒstrəm] or ['rɔstrəm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The beak or head of a ship.
(n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
(n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
(n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
(n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
(n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
(n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
(n.) Same as Rostellum.
(n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
(n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
校對:伊薇特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Platform, stage.
整理:特蕾西
解釋/意思:
n. in ancient Rome an erection for public speakers in the Forum adorned with the beaks or heads of ships taken in war: the platform from which a speaker addresses his audience: the snout of an animal or the beak of a bird: the beak of a ship an ancient form of ram:—pl. Ros′trums Ros′tra.—adjs. Ros′tral like a rostrum or beak; Ros′trāte -d beaked.—n.pl. Rostrif′era a suborder of gasteropods with contractile rostrum or snout.—adjs. Rostrif′erous having a rostrum; Ros′triform shaped like a rostrum; Ros′tro-anten′nary pertaining to the rostrum and antenn?of a crustacean; Ros′troid resembling a rostrum; Rostrolat′eral situated alongside the rostrum.—n. Ros′trulum the mouth part of a flea.
埃迪校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. In Latin the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom virtue and power of the rabble.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Imagine a poor Frenchman ignorantly intruding upon a public rostrum sacred to some six-penny dignitary in America. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The council squatted upon the steps of the rostrum, while below them stood the prisoner and her two guards. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- My captor merely strode up to the rostrum, the others making way for him as he advanced. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There were twenty chieftains about the rostrum, and twenty swords flashed high in assent. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There are many ways of serving everyday needs,--turning churches into social reform organs and political rostra is, it seems to me, an obvious but shallow way of performing that service. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
手打:特雷弗