| 单词 | rostrum |
| 释义 | rostrum (once / 4177 pages) 1n 2n You've probably listened to speakers who stood on a raised platform, or watched the winners in sports competitions step up onto a platform to accept their awards. The platform they're standing on is called a rostrum. Rostrum, originally "animal snout or bird's beak" in Latin, has a back-and-forth history. The word came to be used for the battering beak at a warship’s bow. The ancient Romans used beaks from captured ships to decorate a platform from which orators could speak, called the rostra, the plural of rostrum. In the mid-17th century, rostrum came to mean a platform for speeches, performances, or receiving awards. By the way, the plural of rostrum is still rostra. WORD FAMILYrostrum: rostra, rostrums USAGE EXAMPLESLast year Putin was guest of honour at a massive military parade in Tiananmen Square, appearing on the rostrum on Xi’s right. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) The state motto of “In God We Trust” is now displayed prominently above the president’s rostrum. Washington Times(Nov 21, 2016) Trump may be tempted to take his place beside them on the rostrum. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) 1 n a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it 2Syn|Hyper ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, soapbox, stump platform a raised horizontal surface n beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils Syn|Hyper snout nose, olfactory organ the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals |
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