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on alert

/uh-lurt/US // əˈlɜrt //UK // (əˈlɜːt) //

警惕,警觉,警戒,警戒状态

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
    • : swift; agile; nimble.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an attitude of vigilance, readiness, or caution, as before an expected attack.
    • : a warning or alarm of an impending military attack, a storm, etc.: We'd just boarded the bus when the alert sounded.
    • : the period during which such a warning or alarm is in effect.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to warn to prepare for action.
    • : to warn of an impending raid, attack, storm, etc.: The radio alerted coastal residents to prepare for the hurricane.
    • : to advise or warn; cause to be on guard: to alert gardeners to the dangers of some pesticides.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as invigilant
Antonyms

Examples

  • The US Federal Bureau of Investigation became involved early on when the Tesla employee alerted it to Kriuchkov’s plan.

  • There's also an app—of course there's an app—that will alert you when the mask filters need to be replaced.

  • The new $100 Inspire 2 activity tracker is different from the Halo, however, with a small screen that provides phone notifications and app alerts.

  • Mobile phone and broadcast alerts advised people to prepare to evacuate.

  • District Attorney Michael Ramsey of Butte County, where Paradise is located, confirmed in March that PG&E alerted his office to the allegations and said he was awaiting further information.

  • Minutes before an airplane hit the water, an alert would go out.

  • France is on high alert this week after a series of attacks by loners.

  • I also want to alert you to the broader circumstances of my incarceration.

  • Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven't seen season five episode eight of  The Walking Dead, “Coda”

  • They walk closely together, tense, and alert in their movements.

  • It was Carmena, every nerve of her loyal nature on the alert to baffle this pursuer of Alessandro and Ramona.

  • Then, his hand resting on the handle of the cab-door, this expression suddenly changed to one of alert suspicion.

  • He is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.

  • But his eyes and ears were alert, and he was the first to hear the advent of a large body of horses along the main road.

  • The almost lazy naturalness and simplicity faded gradually out of it, revealing the alert and seductive woman of the world.