scaffold
翻译
脚手架, 绞刑台
例句
The builders put up a scaffold.
建筑工人们搭起了一个脚手架。
The criminal was led to the scaffold.
罪犯被带到了绞刑台。
语法模式
((a/the scaffold)) 脚手架 They are erecting a scaffold around the church.
((the scaffold)) 绞刑台 He was sentenced to the scaffold.
近义词
同义词: platform, framework, gallows
词源
源自古法语“eschafaut”，词源不确定。
记忆技巧
可以联想为给建筑工人提供“安全折叠 (safe fold)”的平台。它还有一个阴森的历史含义。