pillar
/ˈpɪlɚ/ 名词 C1中文： 柱子、支柱、栋梁、中流砥柱
- A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- Something resembling such a structure. · a pillar of smoke
- An essential part of something that provides support. · He's a pillar of the community.
- A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
- The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
- A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
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Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched, bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.
A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars’ heads of the Baskervilles.
One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.
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