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watchtower

/woch-tou-er/US // ˈwɒtʃˌtaʊ ər //UK // (ˈwɒtʃˌtaʊə) //

瞭望塔,瞭望台,望楼,守望塔

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.

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Examples

  • One is enclosed by thick perimeter walls and a second layer of internal fencing, with an internal watchtower and roadblocks outside a guarded entrance, according to satellite imagery in 2018 analyzed by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

  • From the watchtower it could see into every bedroom, every landing, every bathroom.

  • Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

  • When within a mile of the town, they must have been sighted by the Dervish sentries on a lofty watchtower.

  • It might have been a watchtower from the extent of its view, which swept the lake up to the Indian village.

  • I am going to try by that route to get into the cavern and thence up to the watchtower aerial-sender.

  • A small watchtower is kept manned even now, but it's a hungry land, and one which would drain even a baron's funds.