pillar

• n. 柱子，柱形物；栋梁；墩
• vt. 用柱支持
• n. (Pillar)人名；(英)皮勒

来自拉丁语pila,柱子，词源同pole,pale,impale.引申词义桥墩。

pillar

pillar: [13] Pillar comes ultimately from Latin pīla ‘pillar’ (source also of English compile, pilaster [16], and pile ‘heap’). In Vulgar Latin this was extended to *pīlāre, which passed into Anglo-Norman piler. This was the form in which English originally acquired it, and the -ar ending was not grafted on to it until the 14th century.
=> compile, pilaster, pile

pillar (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French piler "pillar, column, pier" (12c., Modern French pilier) and directly from Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier." Figurative sense of "prop or support of an institution or community" is first recorded early 14c. Phrase pillar to post is c. 1600, originally of tennis, exact meaning obscure.

1. She strove to read the name on the stone pillar.

她费劲地读着石柱上的名字。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He was a pillar of the club for over thirty years.

30多年来他一直是这个俱乐部的顶梁柱.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. There is a pillar box at the street corner.

胡同拐角处有个邮筒.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. Some people enjoy that kind of life, drifting from pillar to post.

有些人喜欢这种生活, 到处漂泊游荡.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. He dropped the letter into the pillar - box.

他把信丢进邮筒内.

来自《简明英汉词典》