pharos 的定义
- a small peninsula in northern Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- the lighthouse on this peninsula.Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
- any lighthouse or beacon to direct sailors.
pharos 近义词
等同于 beacon
更多pharos例句
- Even when the Pharos was reared, the primitive mode of illumination by means of wood or coal was employed.
- He stood like a Pharos, and the light of his face kindled the crests of the living waves around him.
- Proteus is called the Carpathian wizard because his cave was on the island of Pharos, or Carpathos.
- The same year, the island of Pharos itself, originally seven furlongs distant from the continent, was joined to it by a causeway.
- A handsome cutter, called ‘The Pharos,’ is stationed here as a tender to the lighthouse.