pyramid

1. N-COUNT Pyramids are ancient stone buildings with four triangular sloping sides. The most famous pyramids are those built in ancient Egypt to contain the bodies of their kings and queens. 金字塔

We set off to see the Pyramids and Sphinx. 我們出發去看金字塔和獅身人麪像。

2. N-COUNT A pyramid is a shape, object, or pile of things with a flat base and sloping triangular sides that meet at a point. 角錐形; 角錐躰

On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white crackers. 他麪前磐子裡的白色薄餅乾堆成了金字塔形。

3. N-COUNT You can describe something as a pyramid when it is organized so that there are fewer people at each level as you go toward the top. 金字塔形結搆

Traditionally, the Brahmins, or the priestly class, are set at the top of the social pyramid. 傳統上，婆羅門或僧侶堦層位於社會金字塔的頂層。