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lamppost

/lamp-pohst/US // ˈlæmpˌpoʊst //UK // (ˈlæmpˌpəʊst) //

灯柱,灯杆,灯光柱,灯塔

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.

Examples

  • Run fast from lamppost to lamppost along your route, easing off for an equal distance before ramping up again.

  • If Earth moved, as Copernicus held, then they expected to see nearby stars shifting in the sky as it did so, just as a lamppost appears to shift relative to the background hills as you cross the street.

  • Chasen did not surrender her purse, jewelry, money, or car, but lurched leftward onto Whittier, where she crashed into a lamppost.

  • A few steps away some colored men were assembled about a lamppost, their laughter coming explosively, in repeated peals.

  • He climbs a lamppost, and sets to work taking notes as fast as his pencil can fly.

  • Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.

  • Well, as I strolled along I saw there was something going on round this lamppost.

  • I leaned against a lamppost, my mind gravel-rashed, and waited for something that could be understood.