from pillar to post◎(无目的地)从一处到另一处;东奔西跑,◎走投无路;到处碰壁;从一个困难到另一个困难(源自网球运动)
pillar
同根词
词根:pillar
adj.
pillared 成柱状的;有柱的
v.
pillared 用柱支持;用柱子的形式体现(pillar的过去分词)
pillar
常用句子
1.To help me with that task, Mrs. Pillar volunteered to come to the hospital and later to my house once a week.
为了帮助我完成那项任务,皮勒太太自愿每周去一次医院,然后到我家来。
2.There is a pillar there of high purity zinc that stood for the duration.
那里有一个高纯度锌的柱子,屹立了一段时间。
3.For me, I think that the open internet is not only an important business thing but also a pillar for an open society in the 21st century.
对我来说,我认为开放型网络不仅仅是一个重要的商业因素,也是21世纪开放型社会的支柱。
4.There is a pillar box at the street corner.
胡同拐角处有个邮筒。
5.Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even embedded in social values.
消费已成为工业地区生活的一个核心支柱,甚至已深植于社会价值观中。
6.The electronics industry is the newly-rising pillar industry.
电子工业是新崛起的支柱产业。
7.The nurse thought that my action was very strange until one day Mrs. Pillar smiled happily as I began working with her—just as she had worked with my years before.