siren
siren 英 [ˈsaɪrən] 美 [ˈsaɪrən]
n. 汽笛；迷人的女人；歌声动人的女歌手 adj. 迷人的 vi. 响着警报器行驶
名词复数:sirens
- You know that loud wailing sound coming up the highway behind you? That's the siren on the police car racing along, lights flashing, chasing a speeder (not you, of course).
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- n. 汽笛；迷人的女人；歌声动人的女歌手
- adj. 迷人的
- vi. 响着警报器行驶
- vt. 引诱
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1. He holed up inside the house and begged his wife to hide him whenever he heard a siren go by.
所以他在自己家里挖了一个大坑，并央求妻子在他听到警笛声时，帮忙将他藏起来。
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2. The siren call of the Internet cries out, “Step right up to the buffet — all the information you can eat for one low price”.
诱人的互联网向他们大声疾呼：“快到我们的自助餐厅来啊，一切你能吃的信息这里都有，超低价！”
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3. If there was one thing that Kang Xueji could not stand about the old days, working in a production brigade on an agricultural collective, it was the siren.
中国，沙里（音）村。 在为集体农庄生产大队工作的那段岁月里，如果还有一件事情是康学吉无法忍受的，那就是汽笛声。
- siren (n.) mid-14c., "sea nymph who by her singing lures sailors to their destruction," from Old French sereine (12c., Modern French sirène) and directly from Latin Siren (Late Latin Sirena), from Greek Seiren ["Odyssey," xii.39 ff.], one of the Seirenes, mythical sisters who enticed sailors to their deaths with their songs, also in Greek "a deceitful woman," perhaps literally "binder, entangler," from seira "cord, rope."
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