Alarm

(noun.) a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event.

(noun.) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.

(noun.) fear resulting from the awareness of danger.

(verb.) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; 'The empty house alarmed him'; 'We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries'.

凯茜录入

• But not so easily did Elinor recover from the alarm into which it had thrown her. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• There is no one else, and no sound could alarm those who are in the farther wing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In December, 1762, a circumstance which caused great alarm in the province took place. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I don't want to alarm my aunt without reason, he said. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his repugnance. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He turned red and started back from her with a look of great alarm and horror. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was unmistakably the voice of a man in great alarm. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• That is what alarms me so much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Such fire alarms can be exchanged automatically, or by operators, and are sometimes associated with a large fire-alarm bell or whistle. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She knows what our real objects are, and she don't have any more alarms or suspicions about us, than if we was so many lambs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Woodhouse talked over his alarms, and Emma was in spirits to persuade them away with all her usual promptitude. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The unusual nature of the demand on my judgment puzzled me, especially following the alarms of the night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• After waiting some time Mrs. Clements became alarmed, and ordered the cabman to drive back to her lodgings. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was only when I had joined him there that I heard what had alarmed his quicker senses. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• There is really nothing to be alarmed about. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mrs. John Knightley is easily alarmed, and might be made unhappy about her sister. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Our friend Mr. Skimpole--don't be alarmed! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Rawdon thanked his sister a hundred times, and with an ardour of gratitude which touched and almost alarmed that soft-hearted woman. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Such constitutional monarchists as General Lafayette were seriously alarmed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The girl's state was, to my thinking, downright alarming--and my mistress ought to be informed of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There is nothing very alarming in his appearance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• With almost every other man in the world, it would be an alarming prospect; but Edward's affection and constancy nothing can deprive me of I know. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• But France was pursuing a very dangerous and alarming game, a game even more dangerous and alarming on the map than in reality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Those clouds look alarming. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Embarking would be easy, but the vision of open sea that might come after was alarming. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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