beacon的意思|beacon的解释-里氏词典

beacon ['bi:kn]

n. 烽火, 灯塔

vt. 照亮

vi. 照亮

[电] 指标

These beacons on the coast are to warn and guide ships.
这些海滩上的信号灯是用来提醒和指示船舶的。
This is a beacon to help aircraft discover their position.
这个闪光灯是帮助飞机确定位置的。
A beacon flamed out against the night sky.
灯塔在夜空衬托下闪亮。

beacon

[ noun ]

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

<noun.communication>

a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes

<noun.artifact>

a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

shine like a beacon

<verb.perception>

guide with a beacon

<verb.motion>

Beacon \Bea"con\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beaconed} (b[=e]"k'nd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Beaconing}.]
1. To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.

That beacons the darkness of heaven. --Campbell.

2. To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

Beacon \Bea"con\ (b[=e]"k'n), n. [OE. bekene, AS. be['a]cen,
b[=e]cen; akin to OS. b[=o]kan, Fries. baken, beken, sign,
signal, D. baak, OHG. bouhhan, G. bake; of unknown origin.
Cf. {Beckon}.]
1. A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to
give any notice, commonly of warning.

No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. --Gay.

2. A signal, such as that from a lighthouse, or a conspicuous
mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in
shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

3. A high hill near the shore. [Prov. Eng.]

4. That which gives notice of danger.

Modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise. --Shak.

5. (Navigation) a radio transmitter which emits a
characteristic signal indication its location, so that
vehicles may determine their exact location by locating
the beacon with a radio compass; -- also called {radio
beacon}.

5. [fig.] that which provides guidance or inspiration; the
Constitution has been a beacon for civil rights activists.
[PJC]

{Beacon fire}, a signal fire.

Searchers were using a buoy equipped with a beacon to plot currents in the area where the Blackhawk UH-60a helicopter plunged into rough seas Thursday night, said customs spokesman Robert Viator.
Now those winds are ripping away the sand and soil that anchor the beacon, and soon its light, like the whalers, will be gone.
Each beacon will be lit by runners moving in relay with an Olympic torch.
He envisions the Comex as a "beacon of light" instantly reflecting price trends that retailers and consumers should know about, "reducing the opportunity for fraud."
A little red lighthouse brought to life in a 1942 children's story was proposed for landmark status Tuesday by a 9-year-old who clambered up to the microphone at a hearing to retell the tale of the proud beacon.
Next Tuesday he'll receive a trophy crafted by Tiffany & Co. in the shape of a ship's beacon, as well as a $25,000 stipend.
In fact, Reagan's dinner partner was Yegor Yakovlev, editor of the Moscow News, the English language weekly newspaper and a beacon of glasnost.
She had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to ship an air navigation beacon system with her business partner in violation of arms export license requirements.
Calling Searle "a corporation which allows greed to be its guiding beacon," he said the company rushed the Copper-7 to market without proper testing.
Ships will also carry a radio beacon, which will give the ship's position and must be able to float free if the ship sinks suddenly.
Although many East Europeans resent the way the West abandoned them to Stalin more than 40 years ago, the United States is widely admired as a beacon of freedom.
What provides a beacon of hope for Burma is that the people themselves have already replaced the defunct ideals of socialism with a yearning for democracy.
The idea is that, once the Channel Tunnel is open, travellers crossing the mournful coastal reaches will flock to Lille as to a beacon of French culture. Jacques-Louis David's 'Belisarius' of 1781 is a marvellous painting, noble and pathetic.
As the mongoose made to run off, his tail like a beacon in the flat grey light of morning, she flicked out a dinner-plate paw and swept his feet from under him.
Instead of crew error, Russia and Mozambique are trying to pin the blame on a decoy radio beacon that they say must have existed.
Sweden, which used to think of itself as a beacon of enlightenment for the world, is suddenly grappling with self-doubt.
Spanish Ambassador Don Jose de la Bellacasa, letting bygones be bygones, used a long-handled, flaming torch to fire the first beacon on a damp and drizzly night.
And more than a beacon: the museum has a closet fitted out to accommodate surf boards. If there is a perennial battle between art and nature, the Tate St Ives cannot win.
Opponents see the corroded containment dome of Seabrook's second unit as a beacon of their fight and the nation's anti-nuclear movement.
Bloyer noted, however, that the plane's emergency beacon would begin to deteriorate after 72 hours, and any "usable signal" likely would disappear in a week as the transmitter's batteries wore down.
The missing vessel was equipped with two life rafts, one of which was equipped with an emergency locator beacon, the Coast Guard said. No emergency beacon signals were picked up Sunday, the Coast Guard said.
The missing vessel was equipped with two life rafts, one of which was equipped with an emergency locator beacon, the Coast Guard said. No emergency beacon signals were picked up Sunday, the Coast Guard said.
"We have a number of signals, we have several different soundings hundreds of miles apart," Walt Chipchase, a search and rescue spokesman in Halifax, said of attempts to find the plane from its emergency radio beacon.
Another beacon of the better life is Prateep Ungsongtham, known as the "Slum Angel of Bangkok."
Niwa relies on amateur radio reports based on radio beacon signals to pinpoint his location.
On Friday, rescuers turned up a floating radio beacon and fishing markers bearing the Heidi Marie's name.
Yet it barely raised a ripple of outrage in Iran, which considers itself the beacon of fundamentalism among the world's estimated 800 million Moslems.
One type of radio beacon is called a VOR (for Very-high-frequency Omni-directional Range).

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