n.[C]

1. （常大寫）（古埃及建造的）金字塔
   The Pyramids were among the seven wonders of the world.

   古埃及大金字塔是世界七大奇觀之一。

2. 【數】稜錐（體），三角錐（體）
3. 角錐形物；角錐形的一堆東西
   Families are at the base of a socio-economic pyramid.

   家庭是社會經濟金字塔的基礎。

4. 寶塔詩

vt.

1. 使成尖塔（或角錐）形
2. 使步步升高；使節節增加

vi.

1. 成尖塔（或角錐）形
2. 步步升高；節節增加
   Consumer lending had pyramided since the war.

   戰後消費者借貸節節上升。

n.

1. a monumental stone structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
2. Geometry  a polyhedron of which one face is a polygon and the other faces are triangles with a common vertex.
3. Anatomy  a pyramid-shaped structure, especially in the brain.
4. a system of financial growth achieved by a small initial investment.
   ▸a form of investment in which each paying participant recruits two further participants, with returns being given to early participants using money contributed by later ones.
5. (pyramids) [treated as sing.] a game played on a billiard table with fifteen coloured balls arranged in a triangle and a cue ball.

v.

[名]

1. 金字塔。
   피라미드 구조.

   金字塔結構。