pillar

1 “No pillars, no straight walls, so much glass that they’ll need three Mr. Vendleri’s to keep it all clean. That kind of modern.”

2 He was longing more and more to know what was written on the pillar.

3 First she was embedded in a crystal pillar, then she melted into a golden statue, finally a staff of polished cedar, and back to a woman.

4 A few years ago, some guy in cargo pants was caught tipping over one of the monument’s pillars.

5 The gateway was no more than a pair of ruined stone pillars, with a road leading away between them into empty fields.

6 I kept to the solid walkway that stretched along the rink, separated by narrow pillars.

7 my father has been my pillar throughout this crisis

8 She lived in a house that had pillars in the front and a wing on each side and statues on the lawn.

9 That meant a pillar—or more than one—had exploded.

10 These two ladies with a third, Mrs. Whiting, were the pillars of Atlanta.

这两位太太再加上另一位,即惠廷太太, 是亚特兰大的三根台柱子.

11 Milton looked away from the dancing children and saw the pillar of smoke right in front of him, blocking the street.

12 There were still pillars of mangled cars but they no longer dominated the landscape.

13 They stopped the whistling and laughing and we followed them into a park with a tall pillar and a statue in the middle and grass so green it dazzled you.

14 Between the pillars, the dead sat on their stone thrones against the walls, backs against the sepulchres that contained their mortal re-mains.

15 Blue-fire lanterns dimly light the hall, and their footsteps echo between the pillars on either side.

16 The reason is that upward mobility requires what sociologists describe as the twin pillars of success: human capital and social capital.

17 I kept going down and came to a broken pillar.

18 “There are more word stones in this second rock pillar,” reported Grace.

19 They passed the Municipal Trade Bank, a huge, elegant fortress with marble pillars and an iguanodon-mounted guard on either side of the mighty doorway.

20 She was hoping one of those community pillars would see the design before the day’s business wiped it out.

1 纪念柱

column

2 煤柱

post

3 中坚

hard-core

4 柱脚

pedestal plinth socle patten

5 标柱

post

6 核心

core pivotal centre stage heart hub gut nucleus kernel pivot locus pith

7 桥墩

pier

8 墩

pier block

9 柱形物

column

10 台柱

top banana anchor man main stay

11 基础

base foundation basis fabric cornerstone footing bedrock substructure substratum basic fundamental elementary rudimentary foot stuff element root starting point backbone keystone springboard handmaiden rudiments

12 支柱

support post standard column shore prop strut mainstay stilt buttress stanchion pit-prop stay spur brace cornerstone backbone crutch bulwark fulcrum backstop trivet puncheon spile landtie pier staff stock rock leg pedestal base anchor

13 柱石

wernerite cornerstone

14 柱状物

column

15 主心骨

trouper a tower of strength

16 柱

post stock beam cylinder shaft upright pier stump mast prism trabecula tree column pole peg stoop

17 龙卷风

cyclone twister Baguio

18 中流砥柱

mainstay

19 柱子

stanchion leg skittle column stilt upright stob

20 邮筒

post mailbox postbox pillar-box

21 栋梁

mainstay ridge beam backbone roof-tree ridgepole rooftree ridge piece beam roof tree

22 信筒

pillar-box

23 矿柱

post jamb jambe mine-prop rib