alarm
n. 惊恐,担心; 警报(器); 闹钟
v. 使惊恐,使担心; 给…装警报器
Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
The news was greeted with alarm by MPs...
得知这个消息,议员们忧心忡忡。
She sat up in alarm...
她惊慌得坐了起来。
If something alarms you, it makes you afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
We could not see what had alarmed him.
我们搞不明白是什么使他忧虑不安。
An alarm is an automatic device that warns you of danger, for example by ringing a bell.
He heard the alarm go off.
他听见警报响了。
...an extremely sophisticated alarm system...
极其先进的警报系统
An alarm is the same as an alarm clock .
If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
This has set the alarm bells ringing in Moscow...
这已给莫斯科拉响了警报。
Alarm bells are beginning to sound at Westminster.
威斯敏斯特的警钟已开始敲响。
If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
His family raised the alarm when he had not come home by 9pm.
等到晚上9点他还未回家,他的家人便报警了。
1. fear resulting from the awareness of danger
2. a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
4. a clock that wakes sleeper at preset time
1. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised;
2. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness;
alarm, fear, fright, horror, panic, terror, dread
这些名词均含"恐惧,惧怕,惊恐"之意。
alarm, frighten, startle, terrify, scare, intimidate
这些动词均有"惊吓,惊恐"之意。
On hearing the alarm the fire brigade rushed to the scene.
消防队闻讯赶到.
There is no ground for alarm.
没有理由惊惶失措.
The alarm clock awoke me on time.
闹钟按时把我闹醒了.
All at once, I noticed that my wife seemed to be filled with alarm.
我突然觉察到我的妻子好象十分惊恐
He was struck with alarm.
他饱受惊慌.