lamplighter

英

美

n.  点灯用具；点燃街灯的灯夫

BNC.47280 / COCA.41469

英英释义

noun

• (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights

双语例句

• And now came the lamplighter.
  这时候点街灯的灯夫出现了。
• On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer.
  在他孤身之旅中，小王子会见了各种层次的人，包括一位国王、一个自负的人、一个酒鬼、一个商人、一点燃街灯的灯夫和一名地理学者。
• That doesn't do me much good," said the lamplighter. "the one thing I love in life is to sleep.
  “这办法帮不了我多打忙，生活中我喜欢的就是睡觉。”点灯人说。
• Small tradesmen, who did no business whatever, sometimes unaccountably realised large fortunes, and it was remarkable that nobody in the neighbourhood could endure a lamplighter.
  这有时叫某些并不做生意的小贩莫名其妙地发了财，可奇怪的是，这附近却没有人乐意承担一个点灯夫的费用。
• When the lamplighter knocked against them, or the wind blew through the cathedral, they would swing back and forth like pendulums.
  他看到当点灯者撞到他们或者风吹过教堂的时候，这些灯就会像钟摆一样来回摆荡。