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词汇 stilt
释义 stilt
noun[ Cusually plural ]
uk /stɪlt/ us /stɪlt/
one of a set of long pieces of wood or metal used to support a building so that it is above the ground or above water: (支撑建筑物高出地面或水面的)柱子,支材
on stiltsThe houses are built on stilts to protect them from the annual floods.房子建在柱桩上,以免遭受一年一度洪水的侵袭。
 
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one of two long pieces of wood with supports for the feet that allow you to stand and walk high above the ground: 高跷
on stiltsI learned to walk on stilts, ride a unicycle, and juggle.
 
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Examples of stilt


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There is often a wooden platform between the stilts where food is prepared and where hammocks are slung, although people sleep mostly upstairs on mats.
The store is designed to stand on stilts above the ground in order to accommodate a car park underneath.
The most striking element of the composition is a group of 11-storey slab blocks raised on stilts (or 'pilotis').
While some drawings suggested a building on stilts with space flowing beneath, others revealed a rather solid ground floor, dividing up the remaining public space in an apparently unsatisfactory manner.
First, only licensees enjoy the right to construct in the car markets a paillote - small, roofed constructions on stilts where importers generally reside during market days.
The circus workshop took place outdoors in the yard, and the trainers focused on teaching the young men specific skills such as juggling and walking on stilts.
Eventually, other and smaller species of shorebirds, such as sandpipers, stilts and plovers, may find it worthwhile to feed on the growing population of smaller and more soft-bodied benthic organisms.
They were without formal dramatic training, and were fantastic jugglers and stilt-walkers and good comedians; and they were very popular.
Of course; that is clearly inconsistency on stilts, but we hear that inconsistency consistently.
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Obviously, the installations should not be standing on stilts or forming artificial islands: they should be encapsulated on the seabed.
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Is not what he says nonsense on stilts?
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British commerce marched through the marts of the world on high stilts.
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They hiked their principles around on stilts before the last election pronouncing on the importance of child benefits.
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He also drew attention to the intrusiveness of large roads on stilts.
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Now we put the roads on stilts, and we find enormous highways running through cities and isolating one part of a city from another.
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