pulpit

• n. 讲道坛；高架操纵台；神职人员

来自拉丁语pulpitum,讲经台，小讲坛，词源不详。可能来自PIE*ped,脚，词源同foot,pilot.字母d,l音变，比较pilot.

pulpit

pulpit: [14] Classical Latin pulpitum, a word of unknown origin, denoted ‘platform, stage’. This sense was originally carried over into English (Miles Coverdale, in his 1535 translation of II Chronicles 6:13, wrote ‘Salomon had made a brasen pulpit … upon the same stood he’, where the 1611 Authorized Version was later to have ‘Solomon had made a brasen scaffold … and upon it he stood’).

But it was eventually swamped by a subsidiary sense which emerged in medieval Latin: pulpitum had been applied particularly to platforms on which people stood to speak in public, and in ecclesiastical usage it came to denote a ‘raised structure on which preachers stand’.

pulpit (n.)

early 14c., from Late Latin pulpitum "raised structure on which preachers stand," in classical Latin "scaffold; stage, platform for actors," of unknown origin. Also borrowed in Middle High German as pulpit (German Pult "desk"). Sense of "Christian preachers and ministers generally" is from 1560s. Pulpiteer, old contemptuous term for "professional preacher," is recorded from 1640s.

1. I spoke from the pulpit ad lib.

我在讲坛上发表即兴演说。

来自柯林斯例句

2. 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.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. 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.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The pulpit is against horse racing on Sunday.

教士们反对星期天赛马.

来自辞典例句

5. All the young men at Pulpit Hill who were eligible - those who were twenty - one - were going into service.

讲坛山上所有适龄的青年 -- 也就是说,所有二十一 岁 的青年 -- 都去入伍了.

来自辞典例句