lamplighter / ˈlæmpˌlaɪ tər /
📖毕业后词汇点灯人点灯者灯光师点灯器
lamplighter 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- a contrivance for lighting lamps.
更多lamplighter例句
- But this was the last summer of the late century, and already I was beginning to get about like a lamplighter on my two sticks.
- I know a town where the lamplighter twenty years ago was an honest old man of the blind and bigoted type.
- The pavement stretched empty and darkening in front of her, and at the far end the lamplighter had started on his luminous round.
- The street-sweeper had long since gone; soon would come a lamplighter extinguishing the street lamps; now all was quiet.
- Miss Lydia rolled her handkerchief into a wabbly lamplighter; she seemed to have nothing to say.