| 单词 | 路标 |
| 释义 | 〔breakaway〕Designed to break, bend, or fall apart easily upon impact, especially to create an illusion, as with a theater prop, or for safety, as with a highway sign or barrier.故意设计的一碰就破的舞台道具的，一碰就倒的东西的：设计一碰即易碎、易弯曲或易跌开的，尤指为造成一种假象（如舞台道具）或为安全起见（如高速路路标或障碍物）〔signpost〕A post supporting a sign that has information or directions.路标，指示标，标志杆：一根支撑一块写有信息或指示的杆子〔steeplechase〕[From the use of church steeples as landmarks] [源于教堂尖顶作路标的用法] 〔milestone〕A stone marker set up on a roadside to indicate the distance in miles from a given point.里程碑，里程标：路边所设立的石制标志，以英里指示从给定的一点到该路标的距离〔guide〕Something that serves to direct or indicate.路标：用以指引或提示的东西〔see〕Be careful to note where the road turns left.注意道路左拐的路标。〔guidepost〕A post with a sign giving directions for travelers, usually placed at a crossroad.路标：通常放置在十字路口，安有为行人指明方向的路牌的柱子〔crucial〕A crucial election is like a signpost because it shows which way the electorate is moving. The metaphor of a signpost, in fact, gives us the sense of the wordcrucial, "of supreme importance, critical.” Francis Bacon used the phraseinstantia crucis, "crucial instance,” to refer to something in an experiment that proves one of two hypotheses and disproves the other. Bacon's phrase was based on a sense of the Latin wordcrux, "cross,” which had come to mean "a guidepost that gives directions at a place where one road becomes two,”and hence was suitable for Bacon's metaphor.Both Robert Boyle, often called the father of modern chemistry, and Isaac Newton used the similar Latin phraseexperimentum crucis, "crucial experiment.” When these phrases were translated into English,they becamecrucial instance and crucial experiment. 决定性选举就象路标一样，因为它显示了全体选民的意向。路标这一比喻实际上向我们表示了crucial 这一词的意义“极其重要的，关键性的”。 弗朗西斯·培根曾用instantia crucis “关键性例子”这一词组来指在某一实验中证明两个假设之一正确和另一假设错误的东西。 培根的这一词组是基于拉丁语crux “十字形”的意思之上的， 它的意思为“在一条路分为两条岔路的地方用于指示方向的路标”，因此它适用于培根的这一比喻。通常被称为现代化学之父的罗伯特·博伊尔和艾萨克·牛顿都用过experimentum crucis “关键性实验”这一类似的拉丁语词组。 当这些词组被译成英语后，就成了crucial instance 和 crucial experiment 这两个词组 〔milepost〕A post set up to indicate distance in miles, as along a highway.英里里程标：以英里显示的用来表示距离的路标，如沿公路设立的 |
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