1·There were the churches—Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height.
浸礼会教堂、卫理公会教堂和长老会教堂,在第二大道和榆树大道的交叉口,它们像机警的哨兵一样面对面地矗立着,教堂的尖塔争相往高处伸。
2·Uncle Sam's war dog sentries have seen their first overseas duty in Puerto Rico. "Adrian" the police dog sentry can't wait to leave his portable kennel.
山姆大叔的哨兵犬在波多黎各首次执行海外任务。警犬“阿德里安”迫不及待地想离开它的便携式狗窝。
3·As the walls came into sight, I could see neither lookouts nor sentries.
城墙已近在眼前,可我还是看不见哨岗,也看不见哨兵。
4·Many countries have copied these “striding steel sentries”, as the poet Stephen Spender called them; more than 88, 000 now march across the country’s intermittently green and pleasant land.
诗人斯蒂芬斯班德称这些建筑为“大步跨越的钢铁哨兵”,现今许多国家也仿造了这种建筑。 现在英国有88,000多这类的输电塔渐渐断断地矗立在绿色和令人喜爱的土地上。
5·The camp is well secured by two sentries, so that all the camp property is under control.
两支哨兵守卫着营地,营地的一切都在掌控之中。