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false alarm

虚惊一场,虚假警报,假警报,虚假报警

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a false report of a fire in progress to a fire department.
    • : something that excites unfounded alarm or expectation: Rumors of an impending transit strike proved to be a false alarm.

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Examples

  • Last year, Voice of San Diego reviewed dispatch records and found evidence that false alarms were more common than the company’s marketing materials show.

  • This flawed technology threatens civil liberties and public safety, generating false alarms that have ended in escalating violence between police and community members.

  • In fact, if you tested everyone in the US tomorrow with over-the-counter tests, the large majority of positive results—maybe nine out of 10—would be false alarms.

  • One reason is that owing to a history of false alarms about tornado warnings, some people didn’t take shelter.

  • Last year, however, a Voice of San Diego review of dispatch records suggested that false alarms were more common than advertised.

  • And no issue should be defined by its outliers because it paints a false picture.

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

  • He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.

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

  • “Nothing else to do” was the most common response for why people chose to go to The Ball, though that rang a little false to me.

  • 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.

  • But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.

  • 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.