beacon

UK:  ['biːkən]

US:  ['bikən]

复数：beacons  

v.

1.像灯塔般照耀

2.设航标

3.为…装设指向标;用灯引导

4.照亮;〔比喻〕警告,鼓励

5.指引

6.激励

n.

1.信号所,望楼;灯塔,信标

2.〔电信〕信标,定向信标,信标器

3.(作为信号的)烽火,篝火

4.信号台

5.〔测〕觇标

6.岸标

7.浮标

8.警标,界标

9.火把;篝火;指路明灯

10.【交通】指向标;【物理学】标向波;〔比喻〕警告,指南

1 . If so, Thailand may emerge from two years of political strife and regain its former status as a beacon of multi-party democracy in Asia.
假如这样的话，泰国将摆脱两年来的政治冲突，重新成为亚洲多党派民主政治的灯塔。

2 . But investments there had been hailed as a beacon for rapprochement across the last cold war frontier.
但开城的投资曾被誉为跨越冷战最后前线的和解灯塔。

3 . That rankles in a state that likes to think of itself as a beacon to the rest of America.
想到自己在美国灯塔般的作用，加州有点不服气。

4 . 'It had two tails, one curving slightly away from the other at the top. It was like a beacon or a laser shooting up into the sky.
彗星有两条光尾，下面那条呈弯曲状，和上面那条光尾稍微分开。就像来自灯塔或者激光的光线直射天空。‘

5 . Many of Body Shop's younger customers were disgusted that this beacon of green and fair trade could sell out to a French multinational.
这家崇尚环保和公平交易的标杆式的企业售卖给法国跨国公司一事，让美体小铺许多年纪尚轻的消费者深感厌恶。