Watcher
['wɒtʃə(r)] or ['wɔtʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body.
錄入:史黛西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
校對:谢尔曼
例句/造句/用法:
- A shock of heaven and earth is felt--not by the slumbering city, only by that lonely watcher, brave and unshaken in his fanaticism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- These are melancholy sounds to a quiet listener at any time; but how melancholy to the watcher by the bed of death! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The watchers upon the larger vessels see to all about them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Other watchers are glad to hear this church-clock strike, for they tell of life and coming day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- His eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and he seemed to have forgotten that any one was by; he scowled at the watchers when he saw them. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Almost at the same moment the two watchers observed the form of a small old-fashioned child entering at the open side of the shed. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Sixty of the men employed at the laboratory were used as watchers, each to keep an eye on a certain section of the exhibit, and see there was no monkeying with it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was now dusk, but the watchers at the gate saw the approaching trio and distinguished one as a prisoner ere they reached the portals. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The men like Nietzsche and James who show the wilful origin of creeds are in reality the best watchers of the citadel of truth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The watchers saw him do it, however, and got hold of him and just led him out of the place with language that made the recording angels jump for their typewriters. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The two watchers ended their long vigil, exhausted, but very happy. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- What is more natural than that they should be the Ultimate Watchers? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- From this convenient retreat, the watchers were being watched and the trackers tracked. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They were not inclined to dispute this recommendation, but they wanted to know where they could join the watchers when so disposed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
手打:托马斯