watchtower

英 [ˈwɒtʃtaʊə(r)]

美 [ˈwɑːtʃtaʊər]

n.  瞭望塔; 岗楼

复数：watchtowers　

BNC.35475 / COCA.25527

牛津词典

noun

• 瞭望塔；岗楼
  a tall tower from which soldiers, etc. watch when they are guarding a place

柯林斯词典

• 瞭望塔;岗楼
  Awatchtoweris a high building which gives a person a good view of the area around the place that they are guarding.

英英释义

noun

• an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies

双语例句

• Several banelings burrow outside the Terran base, but the Zerg player opts to let them walk by, luring them into a trap at the nearby watchtower.
  数只毒爆虫在人的总称基地外挖掘著隧道，虫族玩家选择只让虫群路过，并诱导她们到设置在邻近监视塔的陷阱。
• Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
  他们摆设筵席，派人守望，又吃又喝。首领阿，你们起来，用油抹盾牌。
• Analyzes the historical and geographic reasons that lead the development of the Qiang watchtower;
  分析羌碉形成的历史、地理原因；
• Every few hundred meters along the Great Wall, there is a watchtower.
  沿着长城每几百米就有一座了望台。
• If it isn't, why do they renovate the watchtower?
  要不然，为什么他们要修复了望塔？
• I understand: a kid with a Watchtower magazine on your front porch isn't a Girl Scout with cookies, but, hey, you didn't have to sic your dog on me.
  我知道：一个拿着《了望塔》杂志的小孩和一个带着饼干的女子童子军意义是不一样的，但是你不需要让你的狗来追我。
• Correspondence is people's basic request, and that transmitting the notes from watchtower in the ancient times to the contemporary mobile communication reflects the change of correspondence way.
  通信是人类的基本需要，从古代的烽火传信到当代的移动通信，折射出通信方式的变化；
• Motte and Bailey is a simple, defensible outpost, little more than a watchtower and protective fence.
  城寨是简易前沿防御基地，略强于哨塔和栅栏。
• From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.
  8希西家攻击非利士人、直到迦萨、并迦萨的四境、从？望楼到坚固城。
• That of the Mazu Temple is an imperial watchtower, because Mazu is respected in folk as Saint Mother, the supreme goddess.
  祖庙山门呈皇城阙状，这是因为妈祖被民间尊为天上圣母，是至高无上的女神。