• n. 講道壇；高架操縱臺；神職人員

來自拉丁語pulpitum,講經臺，小講壇，詞源不詳。可能來自PIE*ped,腳，詞源同foot,pilot.字母d,l音變，比較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.

我在講壇上發表即興演說。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court.

他在教堂的講壇上責罵宮廷的罪惡.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

3. The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.

長木椅 、 布道壇和祭壇都與教堂樸素高雅的氣氛一致.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The pulpit is against horse racing on Sunday.

教士們反對星期天賽馬.

來自辭典例句

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

講壇山上所有適齡的青年 -- 也就是說,所有二十一 歲 的青年 -- 都去入伍了.

來自辭典例句