pyramid

英 ['pɪrəmɪd] 美 ['pɪrəmɪd]

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※ 提供单词"pyramid"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

pyramid 金字塔

来自希腊语pyramis,金字塔，来自埃及语pimar,金字塔。

pyramid: pyramid: [16] Egypt seems a likely ultimate source for pyramid, but its earliest known ancestor is Greek puramís, which passed into English via Latin pyramis. Pediment ‘triangular gable’ [17] probably originated as a garbling of pyramid, later influenced by ped-, the stem of Latin pēs ‘foot’.
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pyramid (n.): 1550s (earlier in Latin form piramis, late 14c.), from French pyramide (Old French piramide "obelisk, stela," 12c.), from Latin pyramides, plural of pyramis "one of the pyramids of Egypt," from Greek pyramis (plural pyramides) "a pyramid," apparently an alteration of Egyptian pimar "pyramid." Financial sense is from 1911. Related: Pyramidal.

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3. Traditionally, the Brahmins, or the priestly class, are set at the top of the social pyramid.: 传统上，婆罗门，或称僧侣阶级，处于社会金字塔的顶端。

4. On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.: 在他面前的盘子上有一摞摆成金字塔形状的白色薄饼。

5. A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower.: 一个高20英尺的钢质角锥体将被吊起，安装在塔的顶部。