lectern
讲台,演讲台,讲桌,讲台上
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- : a reading desk in a church on which the Bible rests and from which the lessons are read during the church service.
- : a stand with a slanted top, used to hold a book, speech, manuscript, etc., at the proper height for a reader or speaker.
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He then turned the lectern back over to press secretary Jen Psaki.
Additionally, someone who has a mutual friend with Johnson called the FBI to report that he was the man in the photo with the lectern.
Late Sunday afternoon, Rivera stood behind a lectern in a room outside the Washington locker room, looked into a television screen filled with the faces of reporters at his postgame news conference and exhaled deeply.
That you had one of the most important lecterns, and whether it was about crowd size or other things … that as smart a guy as you are, you didn’t tell the truth and that you did damage to the Republic.
Very few people ever get a chance to kind of sit at the lectern and kind of essentially be the voice of a president for much of the world.
In another photo pair, a crowd listens to a speaker at a lectern in a light-filled conference hall.
“Guantanamo is not necessary to keep us safe,” he said, tapping at the lectern.
When the court came to order, he approached a lectern and stood at attention.
Vicki Jackson, a Harvard Law professor, rises to the lectern and begins her remarks.
He was not projecting outward to a crowd like a professor at a lectern.
The lectern, as the pulpit-stand in English churches is called, was fashioned of oak taken from Nelson's flagship, the Victory.