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.
雙語例句
1. She strove to read the name on the stone pillar.
她費勁地讀著石柱上的名字。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He was a pillar of the club for over thirty years.
30多年來他一直是這個俱樂部的頂梁柱.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. There is a pillar box at the street corner.
胡同拐角處有個郵筒.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. Some people enjoy that kind of life, drifting from pillar to post.