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标题[每日] sentinel (n) 哨兵
时间Sat Dec 6 21:11:10 2008
Word of the Day (Saturday December 6, 2008)
sentinel \SEN-tuhn-uhl\, noun, verb:
Pronunciation:
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1. to stand guard and watch
noun:
1. a person stationed to keep watch and guard
Sometimes the puppy barked when a customer came in, taking on
the
sentinel's role that no one had assigned him.
-- Eliseo Alberto, Caracol Beach
At dawn on June 18, as the bell tolls, the
sentinel on the East
Tower sees a yellowish cloud in the far distance - the dust
kicked up by their horses.
-- Lewis Jones, Previous conquests," review of The Siege by
Ismail Kadare (translated by David Bellos), Daily Telegraph,
5/17/2008
by 1579, from Middle French sentinelle, from Italian sentinella,
perhaps (from a notion of "perceive, watch"), from sentire "to
hear, perceive," from Latin senire "feel"
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1F：→ ktom :有完魔兽争霸半兽人 应该就很熟这个字了~~ 12/07 02:59
2F：→ outofdejavu :sentry 也是哨兵的意思 12/07 21:48