beacon
beacon 英 [ˈbi:kən] 美 [ˈbikən]
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
进行时:beaconing 过去式:beaconed 过去分词:beaconed 第三人称单数:beacons 名词复数:beacons
- If your nose is shining like a beacon, I hope you are a reindeer employed by a jolly fat man from the North Pole.
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- 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
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1. He beaconed up a beacon.
他放烽火。
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2. If we dig deeply into something, anything, at a young age, and we touch Quality, then that scent of Quality will be a beacon for us for the rest of our lives.
如果我们在小时候很深地去钻研一些事情，任何事情并且接触到了出众的特质，那么那种特质的香味就就会变成我们一生中的灯塔。
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3. More than one told me that they saw her as a beacon of hope for young Pakistani women.
不止一个人对我说过，巴基斯坦的年轻女人们把她当作承载希望的灯塔。
- beacon (n.) Old English beacen "sign, portent, lighthouse," from West Germanic *baukna "beacon, signal" (source also of Old Frisian baken, Old Saxon bokan, Old High German bouhhan); probably from Proto-Germanic *baukna- "beacon, signal," from suffixed form of PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine." Figurative use from c. 1600.
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