Watchman
['wɒtʃmən] or ['wɑtʃmən]
解释:
(n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
(n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
凯西整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Guard, sentinel, picket, sentry, guardsman.
录入:斯威尼
例句:
- I judged the person to be with him, returned the watchman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- A watchman was crying half-past nine, down a dark passage through which she had to pass, in gaining the main thoroughfare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Watchman tumbled over me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Sometimes I am my own watchman. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Podsnap always talks Britain, and talks as if he were a sort of Private Watchman employed, in the British interests, against the rest of the world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The watchman related the few details connected with the finding of the body, which he said had been still warm when he came upon it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I can hear the watchman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- A man was standing there, in parley with the watchman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The watchman looked at it, and asked: 'Who for? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- When you came in at the gate and asked the watchman the way here, had you any one with you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I saw the shadows of the heavy stair-rails, thrown by the watchman's lantern on the wall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- There was no one downstairs except the night-watchman. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It was a fine mild evening, and the watchman was calling the hour of ten. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The night-watchman opened the door for us and we sat outside on the stone slabs beside the stairs down to the driveway and waited for the taxi. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Within half an hour from the first starting, they were beyond the winking lamps, and the more than winking watchmen, and were out upon a lonely road. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- As a number of loafers and hangers-on about the docks threatened injury to Fulton’s Folly, as the building boat was called, he had to engage watchmen to guard his property. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
校对:普拉特