英：[ˈbi:fi:tə(r)]
美：[ˈbifˌitɚ]
beefeater如何读
beefeater是什么意思
- n.守卫伦敦塔的仪仗卫士；皇家卫队卫士
beefeater自然拼读
beef·eat·er
bif i tr
beefeater英英释义
noun
a yeoman of the guard that forms part of an English monarch's train on state occasions
a warder of the tower of London uniformed like a beefeater
beefeater词源英文解释
The first known use of beefeater was in 1671
beefeater 例句
1 But the innocent offspring of the beefeater declined this treat.
2 Charlotte had advanced, correctly spelling “kathakali” and “beefeater” and defining “gubernatorial.”
3 The Censorship is changing bit by bit, like the beefeaters of the Tower, who replaced their hose by breeches some years ago without warning.
4 These crowns, robes, and other items of ceremonial regalia have been protected on site by the beefeaters for 600 years – and are all kept in the famous white tower.
5 I became—in fancy—Lord Mayor of London, and Mrs. Bundle shared my civic throne and dignities, and we gave Rubens six beefeaters and a barge to wait upon his pleasure.
6 They were said to have feasted on roast beef every Sunday after church, and soon came to be known as beefeaters.
7 I descend the grand staircase between two rows of beefeaters reclining drowsily at their ease.
8 "The Cornell beefeaters won't get the drop on Yale," returned Frank, quietly.
9 “Ad the beefeaters didn’t eat beef,” chimed in A. Fish, Esq., while the Doctor-in-Law declared that for his part he “considered the morning spent there had been entirely wasted.”
10 In the towering fuzzy hat and bright red uniform of a British beefeater guard, Phillip Buehler explained his particular fixation: Major Zipper, the similarly uniformed mascot of the Conmar Zipper factory in Newark.
11 “I am the king's beefeater's little boy,” replied the child.
12 "Broun," he said, "try to solve your problems without recourse to death, madness—or any other beefeater in the Queen's name."
13 I suspect his next job will be as a beefeater.
14 They're going to give it to the beefeaters pretty hot when they try to come ashore.
15 The tradition of tall tales spun by the yeoman warder, or beefeater, guides is as old as the Line of Kings itself.
16 The doorman wears beefeater red stockings and a white ruffle collar, and afternoon tea is offered.
17 During lockdown the beefeaters have had to forge a life in there, almost totally cut off from London, which surrounds them.
18 Emily twirls her hair and calls Sean her “prisoner of love,” and the poor beefeaters try not to barf on their collars.
19 Every night since the 14th century, the Chief Yeoman at the Tower of London passes the keys to a beefeater at exactly 9.53pm.
20 In the 1990s, a prion disorder called mad cow disease jumped from cattle to humans, appearing as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and killing about 130 young beefeaters so far, most of them in Great Britain.