pedestal

名词 pedestal:

1. a support or foundation
   同义词：base, stand
2. a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
3. an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
   同义词：plinth, footstall

1. He put his wife on a pedestal and so was all the more hurt when he found she was capable of deceiving him.
   他把妻子当作偶像崇拜，因此当他知道她是在欺骗他时，他受到的打击实在太大了。
2. Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built.
   在雕像可以运往美国之前，必须给它选个场地，还要建造一个雕像底座。
3. The statue reposes on a pedestal.
   塑像安放在台座上。
4. The workers put the statue on its pedestal.
   工人们把雕像放到基座上。

ped.es.tal

n.（名词）
An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.
基座：一种垫于柱子或雕像等下面的建筑支撑物或底座
A support or foundation.
支撑物或基座
A position of high regard or adoration.
崇拜或尊崇的地位
v.tr.（及物动词）
ped.es.taled 或 ped.es.talled ped.es.tal.ing 或 ped.es.tal.ling ped.es.tals 或 ped.es.tals
To place on or provide with a pedestal.
放到基座上或提供一个基座

来源：
Obsolete French pedestal
已废法语 pedestal
from Italian piedestallo
源自 意大利语 piedestallo
piede [foot] from Latin pôs * see pedi-
piede [脚] 源自 拉丁语 pôs *参见 pedi-
di [of] from Latin dô * see de-
di […的] 源自 拉丁语 dô *参见 de-
stallo [stall] [of Germanic origin] * see stel-
stallo [安置] [源于日耳曼语的] *参见 stel-