alarm

英 [?'lɑ?m] 美[?'lɑrm]

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復(fù)數(shù):?alarms;第三人稱單數(shù):?alarms;過去式:?alarmed;過去分詞:?alarmed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?alarming;

alarm 警報(bào)

來自意大利語all’arme, 全部拿起武器。

alarm: alarm: [14] Alarm was originally a call to arms. It comes from the Old Italian phrase all’ arme ‘to the weapons!’ This was lexicalized as the noun allarme, which was borrowed into Old French as alarme, and thence into English. The archaic variant alarum seems to have arisen from an emphatic rolling of the r accompanying a prolongation of the final syllable when the word was used as an exclamation.
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alarm (n.): early 14c., from Old French alarme (14c.), from Italian all'arme "to arms!" (literally "to the arms"). An interjection that came to be used as the word for the call or warning (compare alert). Extended 16c. to "any sound to warn of danger or to arouse." Weakened sense of "apprehension, unease" is from 1833. Variant alarum is due to the rolling -r- in the vocalized form. Sometimes in early years anglicized as all-arm. Alarm clock is attested from 1690s (as A Larum clock).
alarm (v.): 1580s, from alarm (n.). Related: Alarmed; alarming.

1. Any escape, once it's detected, sets off the alarm.: 一旦發(fā)現(xiàn)有泄漏，警報(bào)就會響起來。

2. He returned to the airport to find his car alarm going off.: 他回到機(jī)場時(shí)聽到自己的汽車報(bào)警器響了。

3. He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.: 他對政府越來越具挑釁性的聲明表示擔(dān)憂。

5. An alarm links the police station to the divisional headquarters.: 在部門總部和警察局之間連有警報(bào)器。