beacon
英 ['biːk(ə)n]
美 ['bikən]
- n. 灯塔，信号浮标；烽火；指路明灯
- vt. 照亮，指引
- vi. 像灯塔般照耀
TEM4 GRE
beacon：①必看。在海中航行时必须要看灯塔，战争时必须要看烽火来得知敌情②避开。有了它的指引，你可以避开暗礁等危险——烽火，灯塔。
2. 【记】beach + on 海滩上 有个灯塔
beacon 灯塔来自PIE *bha, 发光，照耀，词源同fantasy, 幻想物。
- beacon
- beacon: [OE] In Old English, bēacen meant simply ‘sign’; it did not develop its modern senses ‘signal fire’ and ‘lighthouse’ until the 14th century. Its source is West Germanic *baukna, from which English also gets beckon [OE].
=> beckon - beacon (n.)
- Old English beacen "sign, portent, lighthouse," from West Germanic *baukna "beacon, signal" (cognates: Old Frisian baken, Old Saxon bokan, Old High German bouhhan); not found outside Germanic. Perhaps borrowed from Latin bucina "a crooked horn or trumpet, signal horn." But more likely from PIE *bhew-, a variant of the base *bha- (1) "to gleam, shine" (see phantasm). Figurative use from c. 1600.
- 1. General Rudnicki was a moral beacon for many exiled Poles.
- 鲁德尼茨基将军是众多被放逐的波兰人精神上的引路人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was a beacon of hope for the younger generation.
- 他是年轻一代的希望之灯。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
- 前车之覆,后车之鉴.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.
- 灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Our Parliament has been a beacon of hope to the peoples of Europe.
- 我们的国会一直是欧洲各族人民的希望之灯。
来自柯林斯例句
