alarm
n. 驚恐,擔心; 警報(器); 鬧鐘
v. 使驚恐,使擔心; 給…裝警報器
Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
The news was greeted with alarm by MPs...
得知這個訊息,議員們憂心忡忡。
She sat up in alarm...
她驚慌得坐了起來。
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.
我們搞不明白是什麼使他憂慮不安。
An alarm is an automatic device that warns you of danger, for example by ringing a bell.
He heard the alarm go off.
他聽見警報響了。
...an extremely sophisticated alarm system...
極其先進的警報系統
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...
這已給莫斯科拉響了警報。
Alarm bells are beginning to sound at Westminster.
威斯敏斯特的警鐘已開始敲響。
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點他還未回家,他的家人便報警了。
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
這些名詞均含"恐懼,懼怕,驚恐"之意。
alarm, frighten, startle, terrify, scare, intimidate
這些動詞均有"驚嚇,驚恐"之意。
On hearing the alarm the fire brigade rushed to the scene.
消防隊聞訊趕到.
There is no ground for alarm.
沒有理由驚惶失措.
The alarm clock awoke me on time.
鬧鐘按時把我鬧醒了.
All at once, I noticed that my wife seemed to be filled with alarm.
我突然覺察到我的妻子好象十分驚恐
He was struck with alarm.
他飽受驚慌.