英语释义

• a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels);

  "she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m."

• a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected;

  "the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthene domestic security"

片语

Wake-up Call Service叫醒服务

The wake-up call醒脑剂

A Wake-up Call警钟已经响起

Wake-up Call TEL叫醒服务

tocsin警钟；警报

larum警钟，警报

Requesting a Wake-Up Call要求叫醒电话

wake-up call effect效应

Automatic wake-up call自动唤醒

wake-up p call叫醒服务

英汉例句

• The financial crisis was a wake-up call for East Asia on these issues.

  在这些问题上金融危机对东亚敲了警钟。

• This is a wake-up call to the oil consuming countries and to the oil producers.

  这对石油消费国和产油国都是一记警钟。

• A year later, Mike and Maria have answered the wake-up call in their marriage.

  一年后，迈克和玛丽亚已经将婚姻唤醒。

• 「January 12 was a very strong wake-up call for everybody in the country; we will never let ourselves be caught by surprise again,」 said Thomas.

  「1月12日对于这个国家的每一个人来说，都是一声强烈的警钟；从此以后，我们再也不会让自己被灾难吓得手足无措。」Thomas说。

• Environmentalists describe the tiger「s plight as a wake-up call to save the Sundarbans, which they agree saved tens of thousands of lives last November.

  许多环境保护者认为这些老虎当前的境况为挽救孙德尔本斯国家公园敲响了警钟，去年11月他们要拯救在那里的成千上万的生命。

• But the debt crisis was a wake-up call to policymakers to put the house in order, and they have done a lot to deal with it.

  但债务危机为政策制定者们敲响了警钟，和他们作出了很多努力。

• Will this news be the wake-up call that America needs to get serious about educational achievement?

  这条消息会不会敲响警钟，让我们知道美国需要认真对待教育成绩？

• At the time, energy experts and politicians called the blackout a wake-up call about the country」s antiquated power grid.

  当时，能源专家和政客们称此次停电给国家陈旧的电网敲响了警钟。

• 「Frankly, these statistics need to serve as a wake-up call for America,」 said Avis Jones-DeWeever.

  他说：「坦率地说，这些统计数字应该为美国敲响警钟。」

• She hopes the pet-food affair will be a wake-up call for everyone.

  她希望宠物食品事件能鸣起人们心中的警钟。

• But the repercussions of its currency troubles will reverberate in other countries in eastern Europe, and should act as a wake-up call for Europe's policymakers.

  但其货币危机的影响会波及到东欧的其他国家，这也应该给欧洲的决策者们敲响警钟了。

• This meeting must be a wake-up call for governments at their highest level.

  本次会议必须对政府最高层敲响警钟。

• I think this is positive, of great benefit, though some might see it as a threat and it does serve as a wake-up call for us not to become complacent.

  我认为这是正面的，有很大益处的，尽管也许有些人会把这看成是一种威胁而且它对我们的确也是一个警醒，让我们不要变得自满。