wake-up call
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A wake-up call is a telephone call that you can arrange through an operator or at a hotel to make sure that you wake up at a particular time. (總機(jī)、賓館等提供的) 叫醒電話
I book a wake-up call for 4:45 a.m. 我預(yù)訂了凌晨4點(diǎn)45分的叫醒電話。
2. N-COUNT If you describe something bad that happens as a wake-up call, you mean that it acts as a warning that action needs to be taken to prevent something even worse from happening. 警鐘
He urged her to treat the arrest as a wake-up call. 他力勸她把這次拘捕當(dāng)作一次警鐘。
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wake-up call (wake-up calls)
劍橋詞典
- If something that happens is a wake-up call , it should make you realize that you need to take action to change a situation .
警示，警鐘
For the insurance industry , these floods were a wake-up call . 對(duì)保險(xiǎn)業(yè)來(lái)說(shuō)，這些洪水敲響了警鐘。
a phone call that you arrange to be made, for example in a hotel , to wake you up at a certain time
（旅館、酒店的）電話叫醒服務(wù) 返回 wake-up call