A signpost is a sign where roads meet that tells you which direction to go in to reach a particular place or different places.
例句
The lights of the car lit up a signpost...車燈照亮了路標。Turn off at the signpost for Attlebridge.在路標處拐彎去往阿特爾橋。
N-COUNT
線索;征兆
A signpost is something that helps you to know how a situation or a course of action will develop.
例句
The outcome of tomorrow's elections will be studied carefully as a signpost of voter intentions on the really big day this year...明天的選舉結果會被作為今年大選的選民意愿風向標來仔細研究。These events were all signposts pointing toward change.這些事件都是將要進行變革的征兆。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
指示牌;標志桿
I have tried to provide some signposts.我曾經盡力提供一些標志物。
路標
We drove past a signpost I couldn’t read.我們駛過一塊路標, 可是我讀不懂。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way