Lookout
['lʊkaʊt] or ['lʊk'aʊt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of looking out.
(noun.) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings.
(noun.) an elevated post affording a wide view.
(noun.) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
班森編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
(n.) The place from which such observation is made.
(n.) A person engaged in watching.
(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
黛尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Troops from Lookout Valley carried the point of the mountain, and now hold the eastern slope and a point high up. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He must have passed me when he went up last time, for I was on the lookout below bridge here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Early on the morning of the 24th Hooker moved Geary's division, supported by a brigade of Cruft's, up Lookout Creek, to effect a crossing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Hooker found but slight obstacles in his way, and on the afternoon of the 28th emerged into Lookout valley at Wauhatchie. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He was never on the lookout to detect a slight, but saw one as soon as anybody when intentionally given. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Hooker's position in Lookout Valley was absolutely essential to us so long as Chattanooga was besieged. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I was perfectly willing that the enemy should keep Lookout Mountain until we got through with the troops on Missionary Ridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The crossing had to be effected in full view of the enemy on the top of Lookout Mountain. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- By ten o'clock the bridge was laid, and our extreme right, now in Lookout valley, was fortified and connected with the rest of the army. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I was rather on the lookout for good fortune then. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The river was now opened to us from Lookout valley to Bridgeport. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The Spaniards built these watchtowers on the hills to enable them to keep a sharper lookout on the Moroccan speculators. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Hooker will at the same time attack, and, if he can, carry Lookout Mountain. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- His strength on Lookout Mountain was not equal to Hooker's command in the valley below. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She surely couldn't have got off in the night at any of the landings, for I was awake, and on the lookout, whenever the boat stopped. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
伯尼編輯