Beacon

(noun.) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.

(noun.) a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance.

(verb.) guide with a beacon.

(verb.) shine like a beacon.

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• To lay down on the rocks, a stick, or any straight thing to guide my hand, exactly in the line of the beacon and the flagstaff. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling, replied De Bracy; but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Caroline was obliged to reply, Yes, and her beacon was quenched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• With Betteredge's help, I soon stood in the right position to see the Beacon and the Coast-guard flagstaff in a line together. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In a volume like this, room exists for mention only of those inventions which burn as beacon lights on the tallest hills--and so we must now pass on to others. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For that beacon Malone steered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My directions in the memorandum instructed me to feel along the line traced by the stick, beginning with the end which was nearest to the beacon. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• To feel along the stick, among the sea-weed (beginning from the end of the stick which points towards the beacon), for the Chain. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• To walk out on the South Spit, until I get the South Spit Beacon, and the flagstaff at the Coast-guard station above Cobb's Hole in a line together. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We can share in imagination, not only the wonder of Hanno's sailors, but of the men who lit the warning beacons on the shore. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Beacons of the future! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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