| 词汇 | alarm bells ring |
| 释义 | alarm bells ringalarm bells ring if alarm bells ring, you feel worried that something bad may be happening 警钟敲响，引起警觉 Alarm bells started to ring when he failed to return home. 他没有回家，大家担心起来。 Examples from the Corpus alarm bells ring• Nor had any alarm bells rung about Thomas.• But alarm bells rang when Allison wrote back in December.• At Police Headquarters alarm bells rang in from government munition dumps, military vehicle compounds, hi-tech weapon factories and sweet shops.• Her flesh cried out to be closer, and, with the last vestiges of sanity, alarm bells rang.• More precisely, one complaint from a parent actually appeared, but this was enough to set alarm bells ringing.• Between them, in their flight from the mill, they'd set all the alarm bells ringing at the local sub-station.• Maybe when they didn't phone home, the alarm bells rang. → alarm bells ring at alarm1(2) |
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