beacon

英 ['biːk(ə)n] 美 ['bikən]

解释

※ 提供单词"beacon"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

beacon 灯塔

来自PIE *bha, 发光，照耀，词源同fantasy, 幻想物。

beacon: beacon: [OE] In Old English, bēacen meant simply ‘sign’; it did not develop its modern senses ‘signal fire’ and ‘lighthouse’ until the 14th century. Its source is West Germanic *baukna, from which English also gets beckon [OE].
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beacon (n.): Old English beacen "sign, portent, lighthouse," from West Germanic *baukna "beacon, signal" (cognates: Old Frisian baken, Old Saxon bokan, Old High German bouhhan); not found outside Germanic. Perhaps borrowed from Latin bucina "a crooked horn or trumpet, signal horn." But more likely from PIE *bhew-, a variant of the base *bha- (1) "to gleam, shine" (see phantasm). Figurative use from c. 1600.

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1. General Rudnicki was a moral beacon for many exiled Poles.: 鲁德尼茨基将军是众多被放逐的波兰人精神上的引路人。

5. Our Parliament has been a beacon of hope to the peoples of Europe.: 我们的国会一直是欧洲各族人民的希望之灯。