0 a pole at the side of a road, especially at a point where two or more roads meet, that gives information about routes and distances -- 路標
The signpost said "London 18 miles". 路標上寫著「倫敦18英里」。
1 something that shows what is going to happen, or what should happen, in the future -- 徵兆，預兆
2 to show the direction of something on a signpost -- 以路標指明方向
Tables and diagrams abound, complete with interpretation guidelines, and all chapters are signposted with previews, summaries and recaps.
There are too many ' signposts' in the text, which is sometimes a little slow, laboured and repetitive as a result.
Chapter 1 introduces the book effectively, barring the disconcerting absence of chronological signposts for the relationships marshaled.
Education is a matter of increasing knowledge and reflection, statistical cueing a matter of providing signposts that even the ignorant and irreflective can use.
In other words, acts and ideas should be seen as interchangeable signposts for inter preting historical ideologies.
The editor's highlighting of rural-urban linkages in the final chapter is apposite, but a radical new role for settlement geography is only dimly signposted in this book.
Most of these markers occur in the gaps between the coding parts of genes and can be thought of as signposts marking out particular chromosomal intervals.
Thus even where the mode of knowledge is signposted as one acquired by proof, the transition does not seem to be argued for, but is rather assumed.
