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burglar alarm

防盗警报器,防盗报警器,防盗警报,防盗报警

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an automatic device for giving an alarm when a window, door, safe, etc., is opened or tampered with, as by a burglar.

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Examples

  • On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze.

  • The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.

  • Truth be told, there is no one better at capturing the agony and alarm of a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown than Moore.

  • If the idea of a religious vigilante ambushing sex workers in his spare time sets off alarm bells, it probably should.

  • Brown was still sounding the alarm about one particular firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, when he was arrested on September 12, 2012.

  • Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.

  • There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.

  • Her face wore a look of distress, almost of alarm; she kept her place, but her eyes gave Bernard a mute welcome.

  • The public eye, ever watchful and timid, waits scarcely for the show of danger to take alarm and withdraw its favour.

  • Some of the soldiers secured the porter from creating an alarm; and the rest filling the hall, fastened the door.