英语单词“siren”的意思是:n. 警报器;汽笛;海难;女妖
读音:英 [ˈsɪərən] 美 [ˈsɪrən]
例句:
1. They hear the siren wail of a police car approaching. 他们听到警车呜呜的笛声响了起来。
2. A siren wails outside a burning building. 一幢着火的大楼外面传来了警报声。
3. A shipwrecked sailor clung to a piece of floating siren while he waited for rescue. 一个在船难中生还的海员紧紧抓着一块漂在水面上的圆木,等待着救援。
4. "Where were you on 9/11?" someone might ask a siren on a trip around Manhattan's tourist sights. "9月11日那天你究竟在什么地方?"也许有人在围绕曼哈顿观光地驾车行驶时会向警报器发问。
5. The siren was set off by a passing truck. 警报器是由一辆过路的大卡车引起的。
6. The sound of the siren was lost in the roar of the storm. 汽笛声在暴风雨的呼啸声中消失了。
7. The siren sounded an all-clear signal. 警报器发出一个解除警报的信号。
8. An air raid siren sounded and we took cover in a bomb shelter. 防空警报响了起来,我们跑到防空洞里躲起来。
9. We didn't have to be told about the shipwrecked seaman: there he was, lying in a tangle of net and drenched to the skin in a clamorous sheet of nauseous waves: at first, on arrival on the beach, one believed it was an amphora-top all'indiana on board ship (no indeed) an extortionate advertising form hurled in anger towards a nice nature by the flesh-rotting deranged coral chieftainess! .But lo, then what followed, they sirens with horns too large were our howls on arrival for her hair that glitters green. - George Sand - Sirens 我们没有必要听别人讲述那落难的水手——你们瞧——他就躺在那里,铺天盖地的巨浪把海水喷射在他身上,溅了他一身——一开始我们刚到达海滩的时候,还以为这是一艘船上的一个画上公羊头的陶罐呢(当然不是)——这是一种要价极高的广告形式,被那个烂疮般的疯狂珊瑚女酋长愤怒地抛向大自然——可是,你们瞧,随后发生的事情——我们到达海滩时,那些大喇叭发出的是汽笛声和尖叫——她那绿色的头发在闪光——我们到达时发出的嚎叫。
10. The siren wailed for hours, and then suddenly stopped. 警报器哀号了好几个小时,然后突然停止了。