a place from which to keep watch or view landscape
观察哨所,瞭望台。
a person stationed to keep watch for danger or trouble
守望员
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they acted as lookouts at the post office .他们负责守望邮局。
〈古〉 景色。
[in sing.][ with adj.]
〈非正式,主英〉 [用 以表明可能的结果是好是坏] 前景,可能出现的情况
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‘What if he gets fits?’ ‘It's a bad lookout in that case.
’“要是他毛病发作怎么办?”“那就不妙了。
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〈英, 非正式〉自己的事
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if you can't take an interest in local affairs, that's your lookout .你要是不能对本地的事情感兴趣,那是你自己的事。
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be on the lookout (或keep a lookout for ) be alert to (danger or trouble) 警觉地注意(危险,困难)he told them to be on the lookout for dangerous gas . 他告诉他们小心有害气体 -
keep searching for (something that is wanted ) 一直寻找
we kept a sharp lookout for animals and saw several waterbuck . 我们仔仔细细地寻找动物,见到几只非洲大羚羊