beacon
英 ['biːk(ə)n]
美 ['bikən]
- n. 燈塔，信號浮標；烽火；指路明燈
- vt. 照亮，指引
- vi. 像燈塔般照耀
助記提示
beacon：①必看。在海中航行時必須要看燈塔，戰爭時必須要看烽火來得知敵情②避開。有了它的指引，你可以避開暗礁等危險——烽火，燈塔。
2. 【記】beach + on 海灘上 有個燈塔
中文詞源
beacon 燈塔來自PIE *bha, 發光，照耀，詞源同fantasy, 幻想物。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. General Rudnicki was a moral beacon for many exiled Poles.
- 魯德尼茨基將軍是眾多被放逐的波蘭人精神上的引路人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was a beacon of hope for the younger generation.
- 他是年輕一代的希望之燈。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
- 前車之覆,後車之鑒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.
- 燈塔的光亮在數英裏之外都能看見.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Our Parliament has been a beacon of hope to the peoples of Europe.
- 我們的國會一直是歐洲各族人民的希望之燈。
來自柯林斯例句