Sentinel
['sentɪn(ə)l] or ['sɛntɪnl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
(n.) Watch; guard.
(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
艾伦整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Watchman, guard, sentry, guardsman.
桃乐茜編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Watch, guardian, guard, keeper, warden, sentry, watchman, patrol, vedette,{[i]?}
ANT:Traitor, decoy
尤妮斯錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a soldier or soldier-marine at a point with the duty of watching for the approach of an enemy or guarding the gun-park camp magazine or other locality: a sentry.—adj. acting as a sentinel.—v.t. to watch over as a sentinel.—adj. Sen′tinelled furnished with a sentinel.—Sentinel crab a crab of the Indian Ocean with long eye-stalks.
錄入:索菲娅
例句/造句/用法:
- I was rewarded for posting myself sentinel at the lake by the appearance--not of Anne Catherick herself, but of the person in charge of her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The swinging sentinel was posted, and the sea rushed on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Tabor stands solitary and alone, a giant sentinel above the Plain of Esdraelon. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is a shabby little figure of a private soldier; they had posted him as sentinel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I was seen by the sentinel, who would, I knew, direct the colonel's attention to my presence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Gerald, like a sentinel, was watching the people who were going on to the boat. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Beneath this tree four or five yeomen lay stretched on the ground, while another, as sentinel, walked to and fro in the moonlight shade. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Jo was dismissed, but chose to march up and down the hall like a sentinel, having some fear that the prisoner might bolt. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The sentinel on their post called out in like manner, Turn out the guard for the commanding general, and, I believe, added, General Grant. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I put two sentinels of my own company, on whom I could rely, to keep the door. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And so two of Rawdon's out-sentinels were in the hands of the enemy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Another crow joined them and Robert Jordan, watching them, thought: those are my sentinels. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Nabonidus was taken prisoner, and Persian sentinels were set at the gates of the temple of Bel, where the services continued without intermission. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I suppose that fellow that rode by on the mule posted all the sentinels, from Athens to the Piraeus, about us. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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