plinth

1 For two years, a statue of her, seven months pregnant and more than three and a half metres tall, sat serenely atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London.

2 If previous fourth plinth unveilings are anything to go by, coverage of Nelson's Ship in a Bottle this week will tend to assume that no artist ever before depicted HMS Victory with any ambivalence.

3 Illyrio pointed out the smooth stone plinth on which the second sphinx once stood, now grown over with moss and flowering vines.

4 To make it art we detach it from the plumbing, tip it on its end and set it on a plinth.

5 Rodin is the father of modern sculpture – of sculpture that comes down from the plinth, that occupies or surrounds our own space: The Kiss leads to Richard Serra.

6 It is shown by engineering practice that if the plinth is not partitioned by slits the problem may be solved by wide trough left in advance.

已有工程实践表明，趾板不分缝，采取预留宽槽跳仓浇注可能是解决趾板裂缝的有效途径。

7 In a small fishing village on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela stands a plinth.

委内瑞拉沿加勒比海的一个小渔村树立了一座雕像。

8 A late work, from 2002, named after one of her studios, “Twining Court,” is a single, tall, retiring plinth of black.

9 "All of the shortlisted artists show what an extraordinary crucible the fourth plinth is for contemporary art," he said.

10 When fixing kitchen cabinets as low level, start by doing a raised plinth on the floor.

当固定厨柜如低级时，通过做在地板上的被上升的柱基开始。

11 Yet the conventional presentation of his art as just that – Art, on plinths and with drawings to back up its seriousness – traps Cragg in a universe slightly askew to the one that interests me.

12 All they make here is a quiet shush as they revolve on a floor constructed from MDF which acts as a sort of plinth.

13 Vanessa Thorpe as Marie Antoinette on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.

14 It is, literally, a store-bought brick on a plinth.

15 In a nearby painting she is both a reclining nude and a weightless sculpture hovering above a plinth, whose fluttering brushwork seems almost finger-painted.

16 Mr. Hall and Mr. Ren built a similar life-size plinth in Munich’s historic Wittelsbacherplatz, next to a bronze statue of Maximilian I on horseback, and invited eight artists to submit their concepts.

17 Harry whirled around, slipped off the plinth, and landed on the floor.

18 The winner was announced in mid-March: The local artist Alexander Laner turned the plinth into a micro apartment complete with a picket fence and roof terrace.

19 Fastened to wooden plinths, the detached feet lie near the well-known Tiananmen Square photograph of a lone man who stops a column of tanks.

20 The Triwizard Cup was gleaming on a plinth a hundred yards away.

1 基底

base

2 基石

cornerstone keystone

3 柱脚

pillar pedestal socle patten

4 柱基

stereobatic stereobate pedestal base

5 墙基石

headstone

6 基座

seat pedestal

7 底座

base foot seat mount BEd bezel pedestal root stock foundation setting chassis mounting back bed swivel skew back seating

8 基脚

pedestal

9 壁脚板

skirt skirting washboard