一般起荷重或稳定作用，也可单独存在，如胜利柱、纪念柱等。

A pillar commonly has a load-Bearing or stabilizing function, But it may also stand alone, as do commemorative pillars.

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And, so, people would come down and they'd have their pictures taken with a picture, as if it was part of the true cross of the crashed Vendome column; because for once they had won, for once they had won.

所以,人们会来这里,和那张画合影留念,仿佛这是,旺道姆广场的纪念柱的墓碑,因为他们曾经胜利过,他们曾经胜利过

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In Paris, you got the Victory Column of the Revolution of 1830, where the Bastille once stood, and it's got the names of all the people that were killed in three days of July 1830; but, in something like this you have a body count of more than 15,000 people.

在巴黎,有一八三零年革命的胜利纪念柱,坐落在巴士底狱的旧址,上面列有所有在一八三零年七月的三天中,被杀害者的名单,但是,据统计,尸体的数量,超过一万五千具

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