pedestal汉语翻译：
n. 支柱, 基架, 基座, 基础
vt. 加座, 搁在台上, 支持, 提高...的地位
【电】 台座词型变化：
动词过去式:pedestaled,pedestalled过去分词:pedestaled,pedestalled现在分词:pedestaling,pedestalling第三人称单数:pedestals,pedestals英语解释：
名词 pedestal:

a support or foundation同义词：base, stand

a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)

an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)同义词：plinth, footstall

例句：

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。

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。

The statue reposes on a pedestal.塑像安放在台座上。

The workers put the statue on its pedestal.工人们把雕像放到基座上。

详细解释：
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-

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