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。
1.警钟
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
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。