| 词汇 | watchman |
| 释义 | watchman noun[ C ] uk /ˈwɒtʃ.mən/ us /ˈwɑːtʃ.mən/plural-menuk /-mən/us a person who is employed to guard a building or several buildings（建筑物的）看守人，保安员，警卫 Synonym security guard Protection and protectors adopt adoptable aegis anti-shark anti-skid chaperone cybersecurity defence mechanism den mother doorkeeper elder care precaution preservationist rewilding ring-fence safe space safeguarding safekeeping white knight witness protection Examples of watchmanwatchman Headmen harboured them; village watchmen shared their illegal spoil. This is an entrance gate watchman's shelter hut at the commencement of an avenue of trees, with shrubberies on three sides of it. We were mere watchmen; we have become real builders. Since railways staff like watchmen, were responsible for the safety of goods, they may easily have become victims of the allegation of connivance. The chowkidars or watchmen (supposedly the main characters involved in the circulation), when questioned, seemed to be genuinely ignorant of the meaning of the chapati. An unrestrained, environmentally unsound materialism, and imbalanced development prevailed, not 'night watchman' rule. That is, there is continuity of some sort among the watchman, the space and the objects. No. 11 station is a watchman's room at the end of a building used as a printing office. The setting of guards over ripe crops was commonplace, and the watchmen were frequently armed and occasionally overzealous. These included the everyday needs of a new administrative office such as hiring night watchmen and providing money for tea and other minor necessities. Will the spy and the watchman ever meet? One night watchman, for instance, was accused of illegally having opened a door during the night, and another watchman was jumped on and tied up with rope by drunken journeymen. The district watchmen were established in 1866. Watchnight and babynurse are pidgin equivalents for watchman and baby-sit. Eliavoo also had to work as a watchman for a while. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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