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Rostrum

英式发音:['rɒstrəm] or ['rɔstrəm]美式发音

    (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.

    校对:伊薇特


Rostrum

双语例句


  • Imagine a poor Frenchman ignorantly intruding upon a public rostrum sacred to some six-penny dignitary in America. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
  • The council squatted upon the steps of the rostrum, while below them stood the prisoner and her two guards. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
  • My captor merely strode up to the rostrum, the others making way for him as he advanced. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
  • There were twenty chieftains about the rostrum, and twenty swords flashed high in assent. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

手打:特雷弗

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