Scaffold

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n. (名詞 noun)



        1.    【建】鷹架;臨時搭起的臺架;支架[C]

        2.    斷頭臺;絞刑架[S1]

                    He died on the scaffold.

                    他被處絞刑而死。

        3.    臨時舞臺[C]



vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



        1.    給...搭鷹架;用支架支撐





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–noun 

1. a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building. 

2. an elevated platform on which a criminal is executed, usually by hanging. 

3. a raised platform or stage for exhibiting spectacles, seating spectators, etc. 

4. any raised framework. 

5. a suspended platform that is used by painters, window washers, and others for working on a tall structure, as a skyscraper. 

6. Metallurgy.(冶金術) any piling or fusion of materials in a blast furnace (火爐), obstructing the flow of gases and preventing the uniform descent of the charge. 

7. a system of raised frameworks; scaffolding. 



–verb (used with object) 

8. to furnish with a scaffold or scaffolding. 

9. to support by or place on a scaffold. 





　One day in Central Park, people start to lose their trains of thought. They begin walking backward. They start killing themselves. This behavior spreads through Manhattan, and then all of the Northeast. Construction workers throw themselves from scaffolds. Policeman shoot themselves. The deaths are blamed on a "terrorist attack," but in fact no one has the slightest clue, and New York City is evacuated.





see guillotine