also sign-post, 1610s, "sign on a post, usually indicating an inn or shop," from sign (n.) + post (n.1). Meaning "guide- or direction-post along a road" is attested from 1863. Figurative sense is from 1889.
双语例句
1. The lights of the car lit up a signpost.
车灯照亮了路标。
来自柯林斯例句
2. A signpost indicated the right road for us to follow.
路标指给我们应走的路.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. We drove past a signpost I couldn't read.
我们驶过一块路标,可是我读不懂.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The outcome of tomorrow's elections will be studied carefully as a signpost of voter intentions on the really big day this year.
