signposts

英 [ˈsaɪnpəʊsts]

美 [ˈsaɪnpoʊsts]

n.  路标
signpost的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 路标;道路指示牌
  Asignpostis a sign where roads meet that tells you which direction to go in to reach a particular place or different places.
  1. The lights of the car lit up a signpost...
     车灯照亮了路标。
  2. Turn off at the signpost for Attlebridge.
     在路标处拐弯去往阿特尔桥。
• N-COUNT 线索;征兆
  Asignpostis something that helps you to know how a situation or a course of action will develop.
  1. The outcome of tomorrow's elections will be studied carefully as a signpost of voter intentions on the really big day this year...
     明天的选举结果会被作为今年大选的选民意愿风向标来仔细研究。
  2. These events were all signposts pointing toward change.
     这些事件都是将要进行变革的征兆。

双语例句

• We should consider them to be good advice, and treat them as signposts showing the way to happiness within.
  我们应该把它们当作金玉良言，并看作是通往内心幸福之路的路标。
• Quill does not offer a quick, easy fix to ordinary problems, but provides signposts for a life-long quest towards absolute fulfillment of being.
  鹅毛笔不会对普通问题提出快速简单的措施，但提供的是绝对指向朝着实现最终目标的路标。
• They surveyed land and erected signposts and distance indicators.
  他们还负责勘测土地，竖立路标和距离示意牌。
• There are, therefore, no universal moral truths, no fixed and irresistible human goals, which can serve as signposts for correct moral decision.
  因此，不存在普遍的道德真理，不存在一成不变、无法抗拒、指导人们作出正确道德决定的人类目标。
• By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way.
  而相比之下，对于个人成长过程的衡量就难得多，因为成长过程的定义就是一次旅程，而不是旅行过程中的某个路标或界标。
• What were some of the signposts of an accident waiting to happen at Berkshire?
  伯克希尔可能会在哪些方面出问题呢？
• Some find constancy in religion. Others lean on friends or community for permanence. But we need some daily signposts that we are not novel, not better, not worse from those who came before us.
  一些人寄情于宗教，另一些人依赖于朋友或社区来寻求安稳，但我们还需要一些日常的标志物提醒我们：我们也和前人一样，并没有更新潮、更好或更糟。
• Mrs. Clinton has made efforts to maintain contact with cultural signposts.
  克林顿夫人努力与文化标志人物保持联系。
• The goal was a movie filled with clues and signposts, kind of like the cover of Sergeant Pepper, every time you look at it, you might see something different.
  我们的目标做出一部贯穿线索和征兆的影片，就像《佩铂军士》的封面，每看一次都会有新的收获。
• The West could start with five basic signposts for the long road ahead.
  西方一开始可以为这条漫长之路设置五个基本的“路标”。