Sentinel

(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.

(n.) Watch; guard.

(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.

(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.

(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

艾伦整理

• I was rewarded for posting myself sentinel at the lake by the appearance--not of Anne Catherick herself, but of the person in charge of her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The swinging sentinel was posted, and the sea rushed on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Tabor stands solitary and alone, a giant sentinel above the Plain of Esdraelon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is a shabby little figure of a private soldier; they had posted him as sentinel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I was seen by the sentinel, who would, I knew, direct the colonel's attention to my presence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Gerald, like a sentinel, was watching the people who were going on to the boat. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Beneath this tree four or five yeomen lay stretched on the ground, while another, as sentinel, walked to and fro in the moonlight shade. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Jo was dismissed, but chose to march up and down the hall like a sentinel, having some fear that the prisoner might bolt. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The sentinel on their post called out in like manner, Turn out the guard for the commanding general, and, I believe, added, General Grant. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I put two sentinels of my own company, on whom I could rely, to keep the door. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And so two of Rawdon's out-sentinels were in the hands of the enemy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Another crow joined them and Robert Jordan, watching them, thought: those are my sentinels. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Nabonidus was taken prisoner, and Persian sentinels were set at the gates of the temple of Bel, where the services continued without intermission. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I suppose that fellow that rode by on the mule posted all the sentinels, from Athens to the Piraeus, about us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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