sentinel
sentinel 英 [ˈsentɪnl] 美 [ˈsɛntənəl]
n. 哨兵 vt. 守卫，放哨
名词复数:sentinels
- A sentinel is a guard, a lookout, a person keeping watch. It's often a soldier, but not always. If you're watching a pot, waiting for it to boil, you're standing sentinel over it — and incidentally, it won't boil until you leave.
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- n. 哨兵
- vt. 守卫，放哨
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1. The lack of poultry outbreaks spells trouble because the birds normally serve as a sentinel, sounding the alarm.
禽类暴发的缺失让人们感到烦恼，因为禽类通常是发出警报的哨兵。
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2. In this sample, we implemented a similar JDBC results resolver that uses named statements and positional parameters with the XML parameter denoted a sentinel value of —XML—.
在本例中，我们实现了一个类似的 JDBC 结果解析器，它通过以一个哨兵值 —XML— 标示的 XML 参数使用几个已命名语句和位置参数。
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3. A source familiar with the Heat's chances told the Sun sentinel that the team knows James "still has interest" but that management is not necessarily completely confident that it is the favorite.
一名熟悉热火内幕的消息人士告诉太阳哨兵报，球队知道詹姆斯对其很感兴趣，但是管理层仍不敢完全相信热火就是詹姆斯最中意的球队。
- sentinel (n.) 1570s, from Middle French sentinelle (16c.), from Italian sentinella "a sentinel." OED says "No convincing etymology of the It. word has been proposed," but perhaps (via a notion of "perceive, watch"), from sentire "to hear," from Latin sentire "feel, perceive by the senses" (see sense (n.)).
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