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n. 灯塔



    lighthouse
    [ noun ]
    a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
    <noun.artifact>


    Lighthouse \Light"house`\ (l[imac]t"hous`), n.; pl.
    {Lighthouses} (l[imac]t"houz`[e^]z).
    A tower or other building with a powerful light at top,
    erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point
    on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a
    pharos.

    1. But last week, it quietly unveiled new Kent ads that are brightly colored drawings of couples on a beach and at a lighthouse.
    2. 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.
    3. For years, debate has raged about what should be done to preserve the nation's oldest and tallest brick lighthouse.
    4. "I could say, to heck with it, and not take my medication, and maybe I'd be blind in a few years," Perrin said. "But the lighthouse is still there.
    5. Perrin wanted the work to be a view from the sea, but after clambering down the bluff to the beach, easel and brushes in hand, he realized the lighthouse wasn't visible from that vantage point.
    6. The remaining monuments on the list _ the statue of Zeus in Olympia, Artemis' temple in Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor and the Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria _ were destroyed by warfare or earthquakes.
    7. Around 1845, the lighthouse keeper Tobias Cook made cheap cigars that sold as expensive Spanish imports in Boston until he was discovered.
    8. Moving the lighthouse would be a more practical way of saving it than trying to protect the site from erosion by the sea, the study said.
    9. "We feel vindicated," said Futrell, who recently proposed establishing at least one experimental "lighthouse" district in all 50 states where "anything goes" in the name of school reform.
    10. In one frame, the Bushes find that the first lighthouse they run into has been turned into a condominium and the first lobstermen they meet does not live in a quaint fishing village, as they expected.
    11. Pastel houses were laid out beneath a proverbial pink candy lighthouse; it is as though it was always destined to be a holiday town.
    12. He also urged Japan to tear down a lighthouse built on one of the eight unpopulated islands that make up the chain in the East China Sea.
    13. For seven minutes, a Roman Catholic priest read prayers over the radio to a Cuban radio monitor at a Havana lighthouse, Rebull said. The operator acknowledged the message but made no further response.
    14. "Everyone says it can't be done," Perrin said of his efforts to save the lighthouse. "But I'm a stubborn cuss." The odds against him are daunting.
    15. "It would be like a lighthouse tender visiting an automated lighthouse" for servicing, says Mr. Paine, the former NASA administrator.
    16. "It would be like a lighthouse tender visiting an automated lighthouse" for servicing, says Mr. Paine, the former NASA administrator.
    17. Ms. Harriman also said she knew of no damage to the well-known Cape Hatteras lighthouse off the North Carolina coast.
    18. Why not pastry cooks or lighthouse keepers?'
    19. Other methods of protecting the lighthouse, such as building a seawall around it, also were examined.
    20. The Coast Guard even commissioned the building in July 1985, making it sort of an honorary lighthouse.
    21. The prowler was detected and trapped in 282 feet of water near the Gustav Dalen lighthouse off the city of Oxelsund, about 60 miles south of Stockholm, he said in an interview.
    22. The pink-cheeked, silver-haired maverick, who has made the island his home, has painted the lighthouse and is donating 20 percent of the proceeds from the sale of each $150 print to an effort to save the lighthouse.
    23. The pink-cheeked, silver-haired maverick, who has made the island his home, has painted the lighthouse and is donating 20 percent of the proceeds from the sale of each $150 print to an effort to save the lighthouse.
    24. The Academy of Sciences committee acknowledged some detrimental effects of relocating the lighthouse.
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