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

助记提示


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

中文词源


beacon 灯塔

来自PIE *bha, 发光,照耀,词源同fantasy, 幻想物。

英文词源


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.

双语例句


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

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