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A sentry is a soldier whose job is to stand and watch, usually outside a building, a gate, or a camp. The sentry is not there to fight in that moment; the sentry is there so that nobody slips in, and so that a warning can go up if something is wrong. Armies have used sentries for a very long time, and you still meet the word in news about military places, and in books and films. In everyday talk many people just say “guard.” To “stand sentry” is to do that watching job. Though actually, not every guard is a sentry: a sentry is the one posted at a post, often alone or in a small pair, staying awake and looking out.
組成From earlier English sentrie / sentery; the origin is not certain. It may be an alteration of sentinel or sanctuary, or it may come from Old French senteret (“a little path”), a diminutive of sentier, from Medieval Latin semitarius (“a path”).
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sentrynoun/ˈsɛn.tɹi/
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A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
- Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.
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Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
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nauticaltransportA form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
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A watchtower.
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An animal like a marmot tasked with alerting the pack to danger.
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