Pyramid

(noun.) a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt.

(noun.) (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases.

(noun.) a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex.

(verb.) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base.

(verb.) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid.

(verb.) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal.

(verb.) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts.

录入:丽莎

• It was a small pyramid of black, putty-like stuff, exactly like the one upon the table of the study. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In the construction of a temple or a pyramid not merely was it necessary to have regard to the points of the compass, but care must be taken to have the sides at right angles. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• No, indeedyou shall be indifferent to me, as the shabbiest bouquet in your pyramid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We paid it, too, for we were purposely spread very far apart over the vast side of the Pyramid. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is more cold within her, than a fire left by gypsies in winter-time, the spent embers crowned by a pyramid of snow. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The Great Pyramid put it into his head to go up the Nile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The answer vouchsafed to Mademoiselle St Pierre from the estrade was given in the gesticulation of a hand from behind the pyramid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is best to build the pile in the form of a pyramid. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Only a poor girl—only a stroller—only James Harthouse made nothing of—only James Harthouse a Great Pyramid of failure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I said, Sirrah, I will give you a hundred dollars to jump off this pyramid head first. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He touched it once more, wishing us a good journey; and we left him standing on the pavement, as respectable a mystery as any pyramid in Egypt. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This was the sole vestige of democracy in the astounding pyramid. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You shall walk up the pyramids of Egypt! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Only by the use of large and strong ropes could they have moved the massive stones seen in their pyramids and temples. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At the distance of a few miles the Pyramids rising above the palms, looked very clean-cut, very grand and imposing, and very soft and filmy, as well. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If we were lying in sight of the Pyramids of Egypt, they would not come on deck until after breakfast, now-a-days. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is more famous than the Parthenon; it is older than the Pyramids. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We are about starting to the illustrious Pyramids of Egypt, and the donkeys for the voyage are under inspection. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He landed his troops hurriedly, and the battle of the Pyramids made him master of Egypt. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Pyramids of skulls were his particular architectural fancy; after the storming of Ispahan he made one of 70,000. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:谢尔曼