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岗亭

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sentry \Sen"try\, n.; pl. {Sentires}. [Probably from OF.
   senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente.
   See {Sentinel}.]
   1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

   2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.

            Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother,
            sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.
                                                  --Dryden.

   {Sentry box}, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his
      post, and shelter him from the weather.

资料来源 : WordNet®

sentry box
     n : a small shelter with an open front to protect a sentry from
         the weather