a raised enclosed platform in a church or chapel from which the preacher delivers a sermon (教堂的)讲坛,布道坛 ■(the pulpit)religious teaching as expressed in sermons; preachers collectively [总称]布道;传教士,牧师 the movies could rival the pulpit as an agency moulding the ideas of the mass public. 作为一种塑造大众思想的手段,电影可与布道抗衡。 ■a raised platform in the bows of a fishing boat or whaler (渔船或捕鲸船船首的)凸起平台 ■a guard rail enclosing a small area at the bow of a yacht (快艇艇首的)护栏,安全栏
语源
Middle English: from Latin pulpitum 'scaffold, platform', in medieval Latin 'pulpit'