英语词典

wake-up call的意思

wake-up call


英式读音
英式读音

  • n.催醒电话;叫早电话;让人警醒的事
  • 网络叫醒电话;叫醒服务;唤醒服务

近义词

    n.reveille,bugle call

权威英汉双解

    I asked for a wake-up call at 6.30 a.m.

    我请他们在早晨 6:30 打电话叫醒我。

    These riots should be a wake-up call for the government.

    这些暴乱该为政府敲响警钟了。

英汉释义

  • na.

    1.警钟

英英释义

  • n.

    1.a telephone call that you receive to wake you up, especially in a hotel

    2.a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave

英汉例句

  • 1."It has certainly been a wake-up call to equity at the point of entry. "

    “这当然是你初入职场时在公平方面得到的一记警钟”。

  • 2.Maybe one of these days I'll tell you how I got my wake-up call, it is an interesting story.

    可能这些天的某一天我将告诉你我是如何觉醒的,那是一个有趣的故事。

  • 3.Harry: Last night, I discovered something wonderful. It was a wake-up call, a way to look at myself and what I really want out of life.

    哈利:昨天晚上,我发现一些奇妙的事情。有人敲响了警钟,这是一种审视自己,我真想要的生活。

  • 4.He says it was a shock, and a wake-up call, when the only work he could find was a low-paying restaurant job.

    他说,当他唯一能找到的工作只是拿低薪在餐馆打工时,他震惊了,开始清醒了。

  • 5.The inability to watch videos or download podcasts and music was a bit of a wake-up call about how high my expectations have risen.

    我们不能观看视频,无法下载语音文件和各种音乐,不过这倒像是一个小闹铃,它提醒我,自己曾对网络有著多么高的期望。

  • 6.Next morning, when she did not answer a wake-up call, her mother went to the apartment and found her daughter battered and bloodied.

    第二天早晨,当她没有回应清晨唤醒电话后,她的母亲去了公寓,并发现她的女儿被殴打得满身血迹。

  • 7.England seems to be suffering from a deadly case of deja vu, or perhaps, a wake up call.

    英格兰似乎正在经受着曾经的切肤之痛,或者这也许是一种唤醒的召唤。

  • 8."We have to see this as a wake-up call, " Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an interview on Monday.

    “我们不得不将这件事情当作叫醒电话,”周一,教育部长阿恩·邓肯在访谈中说。

  • 9.This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?

    这座小镇真是让人有点兴奋,你不觉得吗?

  • 10.This episode is a wake-up call to any company perceived to be hostage to one person alone. Even if it is true.

    对于那些在人们眼里完全依托于一个人——即使这是真实情况——的公司来说,这件事不啻一记警钟。

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