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beacon

/bee-kuhn/US // ˈbi kən //UK // (ˈbiːkən) //

信标,烽火,烽火台,灯塔

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
    • : a tower or hill used for such purposes.
    • : a lighthouse, signal buoy, etc., on a shore or at a dangerous area at sea to warn and guide vessels.
    • : Navigation. radio beacon. a radar device at a fixed location that, upon receiving a radar pulse, transmits a reply pulse that enables the original sender to determine his or her position relative to the fixed location.
    • : a person, act, or thing that warns or guides.
    • : a person or thing that illuminates or inspires: The Bible has been our beacon during this trouble.
    • : Digital Technology. web beacon.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to serve as a beacon to; warn or guide.
    • : to furnish or mark with beacons: a ship assigned to beacon the shoals.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to serve or shine as a beacon: A steady light beaconed from the shore.

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Examples

  • This year, with sales depressed by the coronavirus, pickup sales have been a beacon of strength for automakers, which are trying to make up for production lost when factories were forced to close earlier in the year.

  • In a Telegram message, Buterin rebutted Wood’s claims, pointing to Ethereum’s impending deployment of a new version of its blockchain called Beacon, and to a series of improvements related to privacy and transaction capacity.

  • For more than 100 years, the club sandwich has been a sturdy, protein-packed beacon of dependability.

  • To be sure, Cincinnati isn’t some ideal beacon of diversity.

  • Released by the insects, these airborne scents could act as an beacon.

  • For James, wearing the shirt was “more of a shout-out to the family more than anything,” he told the Akron Beacon Journal.

  • John Paul II told the European Union at the time that it was “a beacon of civilization.”

  • And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship.

  • But simultaneously, as indicated by his support for Beacon, journalism is still incredibly valuable to him.

  • I also think Christine Baranski is a beacon of light and I, too, would like to know what Josh Charles was thinking.

  • Those who follow her beacon faithfully will gradually rise to the solutions of the greatest problems.

  • The brilliant beacon of the Eiffel Tower sat high up in the sky, like an exile star.

  • If they had not known every inch of the way as they did know it, a beacon-light on the shore would have guided them.

  • At length a distant colume of fire, widening and increasing as I approached, served me as a beacon.

  • As he went forward his shifting position frequently shut out the beacon-light, but he made no mistake at any point in his walk.