| 词汇 | raise the alarm |
| 释义 | raise the alarmraise the alarm 1 WARN especially British EnglishBrE to warn people that something bad is happening 发出警报 Neighbours raised the alarm when they smelled smoke. 邻居闻到烟味便发出了警报。 Examples from the Corpus raise/sound the alarm• When the First Lady looked in on him and discovered he was missing, she panicked and sounded the alarm.• The Big Three began sounding the alarm in a big way when January sales figures were reported.• Stewart dispatched a column sounding the alarm.• Volcanologist Pierce Brosnan and small-town mayor Linda Hamilton sound the alarm.• Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm.• He sounded the alarm and the train stopped at St-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours.• They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people.• He was one of the earliest to sound the alarm about the fate of churches and their contents. → raise/sound the alarm at alarm1(1) 2 British EnglishBrEWARN to warn people about a danger so that they can take action 发出警报 Sam stayed with his injured friend while a passing motorist raised the alarm. 萨姆陪着他受伤的朋友，一名过路司机则发出了警报。 Examples from the Corpus raise the alarm• And yesterday his heartbroken wife Jane slammed police for failing to find him after she raised the alarm 48 hours earlier.• Fearing the bag might contain a bomb, a passenger raised the alarm.• Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm.• Instead, he drove off and was later found dead by police after she raised the alarm.• The scanner easily raises the alarm.• The Romantics had raised the alarm about the disintegration in modern society of much that is essential to the full human experience.• Rex raised the alarm, and the entire crew rushed forward in the rain and darkness to try to limit the damage.• Mrs Gillis-Tweed raised the alarm from a neighbour's home.• Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede, Surrey. → raise the alarm at raise1(6) |
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