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siren

/sahy-ruhn/US // ˈsaɪ rən //UK // (ˈsaɪərən) //

警报器,警笛声,警笛,报警器

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
    • : a seductively beautiful or charming woman, especially one who beguiles men: a siren of the silver screen.
    • : an acoustical instrument for producing musical tones, consisting essentially of a disk pierced with holes arranged equidistantly in a circle, rotated over a jet or stream of compressed air, steam, or the like, so that the stream is alternately interrupted and allowed to pass.
    • : an implement of this kind used as a whistle, fog signal, or warning device.
    • : any of several aquatic, eellike salamanders of the family Sirenidae, having permanent external gills, small forelimbs, and no posterior limbs.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like a siren.
    • : seductive or tempting, especially dangerously or harmfully: the siren call of adventure.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to go with the siren sounding, as a fire engine.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to allure in the manner of a siren.

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Examples

  • A surveillance video from a private home, broadcast by WRC-TV, shows a moped traveling near Seventh and Kennedy streets NW followed by a police vehicle with its lights and siren on.

  • The statement said the officer was traveling westbound on East Capitol Street and approaching Southern Avenue with his emergency lights and sirens activated.

  • Horns honking, planes making their very-final descent, sirens heckling from around the neighborhood — they come with the territory of performing outdoors in any city.

  • In fact, it would be hard to draw more attention without the help of some sirens and a bullhorn.

  • Harmon cranked up his siren and flashed the cruiser’s red and blue lights.

  • The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.

  • Anyway, Hurley magically built a career from it, and is still smiling and siren-ing.

  • That song would soon morph from the jaunty clip of the light rail to the siren sounds of jazz.

  • As I stepped into the main building that housed Unit C, an earsplitting siren blared suddenly and a dozen strobes flashed.

  • Half an hour after I had returned to my old apartment from Jaffa, an air raid siren went off.

  • He came close to having convulsions when a squad car passed on the next street west, its siren wailing.

  • The soldier of Revolution must not be lured from the field of battle by the siren song of love.

  • That police car, roaring up from behind, siren a-scream, smashed into the tail end of their job.

  • The officers of the Siren saw them also, and sent their boats into the harbor to aid the fugitives, if necessary.

  • A little while afterwards the Canada's siren began to wail and squeal with a horrible mockery of painful cries.