wake-up call

wake-up call

美 　英

• n.催醒電話；叫早電話；讓人警醒的事
• 網絡叫醒電話；叫醒服務；喚醒服務

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"It has certainly been a wake-up call to equity at the point of entry. "

“這當然是你初入職場時在公平方面得到的一記警鐘”。

Maybe one of these days I'll tell you how I got my wake-up call, it is an interesting story.

可能這些天的某一天我將告訴你我是如何覺醒的，那是一個有趣的故事。

Harry: Last night, I discovered something wonderful. It was a wake-up call, a way to look at myself and what I really want out of life.

哈利：昨天晚上，我發現一些奇妙的事情。有人敲響了警鐘，這是一種審視自己，我真想要的生活。

He says it was a shock, and a wake-up call, when the only work he could find was a low-paying restaurant job.

他說，當他唯一能找到的工作只是拿低薪在餐館打工時，他震驚了，開始清醒了。

The inability to watch videos or download podcasts and music was a bit of a wake-up call about how high my expectations have risen.

我們不能觀看視頻，無法下載語音文件和各種音樂，不過這倒像是一個小鬧鈴，它提醒我，自己曾對網絡有著多么高的期望。

Next morning, when she did not answer a wake-up call, her mother went to the apartment and found her daughter battered and bloodied.

第二天早晨，當她沒有回應清晨喚醒電話后，她的母親去了公寓，并發現她的女兒被毆打得滿身血跡。

England seems to be suffering from a deadly case of deja vu, or perhaps, a wake up call.

英格蘭似乎正在經受著曾經的切膚之痛，或者這也許是一種喚醒的召喚。

"We have to see this as a wake-up call, " Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an interview on Monday.

“我們不得不將這件事情當作叫醒電話，”周一，教育部長阿恩·鄧肯在訪談中說。

This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?

這座小鎮真是讓人有點興奮，你不覺得嗎？

This episode is a wake-up call to any company perceived to be hostage to one person alone. Even if it is true.

對于那些在人們眼里完全依托于一個人——即使這是真實情況——的公司來說，這件事不啻一記警鐘。

To me, it's something of a wake-up-call to realise that a couple who make $75, 000 each are in the top 5% of American households.

對我來說，這提醒我意識到一對夫婦，當雙方都掙到$75,000時才會進入到收入前5%的家庭。

Strikes over the last 2 months have been a wake-up call for many foreign companies that depend on China's low costs to compete overseas.

近兩個月來的罷工事件為多家外企敲醒了警鐘：不能再盡情享受中國低廉的人力成本帶來的海外競爭優勢。

"If letters are sent with both 'Haringey' and 'children' in the same sentence, then that should have been a real wake-up call. "

“如果那些信件以及‘哈林蓋’和‘孩子們’同時在判決書中出現，應該說那才是一個真正的喚醒服務。”

That seems to me to be a huge wake up call for on-line travel companies.

對我來說，這相當于為在線旅游企業敲響了警鐘。

If the failure in Copenhagen can act as a wake-up call to the biodiversity community, that itself will have been a positive achievement.

如果哥本哈根的失敗能夠起到喚醒生物多樣性界的作用，那么它本身就是一項積極的成就。

It has been a real wake up call for HIV researchers all over.

這確實是對所有艾滋病研究者的清涼劑。

"It was a real wake-up call to us, " he said.

“這給我們敲了一個警鐘。”

There has been a range of speculation about the nature of the threat posed by the botnet, from a wake-up call to a devastating attack.

關于僵尸網絡構成的威脅有著廣泛的投機，從喚醒命令直至破壞性的攻擊。

"This should be a wake-up call to parents: you and your kids want the exact same thing. What's missing are the proper tools, " Irwin added.

歐文還說：“這項調查給父母們提了個醒：你和你的孩子想要的是完全相同的東西，你所缺乏的只是合適的方式而已。”

Let us hope that this summer of extremes is a last-minute wake-up call to policy makers, the corporate world, and citizens alike.

我們要相信，今年夏天的極端氣候事件是在最后關頭向決策者、全世界以及全體公民敲響的警鐘。

The book serves as a warning sign and a wake up call to anyone concerned about fate of the American democratic process.

本書是個警告信號，它試圖喚醒所有關心美國民主命運的人。

Fourth, the United States sub-loan crisis of our MBS to carry out a wake-up call.

美國次貸危機為我們開展MBS敲響了警鐘。

Anthony Costello, director of UCL's Institute for Global Health, said that helping to write the report had been a personal wake-up call.

倫敦大學學院的全球健康研究所的負責人安東尼科斯特洛說，協助撰寫這篇報告使他有機會自我反省。

I am honoured to address this session, and I am strong in my conviction that this meeting must serve as a wake-up call.

能在本次會議上講話我倍感榮幸，我也堅信本次會議必將為人們敲響警鐘。

But the debt crisis was a wake-up call to policymakers to put the house in order, and they have done a lot to deal with it.

但債務危機為政策制定者們敲響了警鐘，和他們作出了很多努力。

The Great Recession should have been a huge wake-up call.

大衰退應該是一個聲音巨大的起床鈴。

In some cases, than a wake-up call "lesson time" to be good because, as can at least make up for.

有時候，當頭棒喝遠比“時間的教訓”要好的多，因為，那樣至少還可以彌補。

But public revulsion at the excesses of the financial industry has been a wake-up call to companies in all sectors.

然而，公眾對金融業無節制行為的反彈使各行業的公司企業如夢方醒。

The Scottish MP welcomed the ban, and said it should act as a wake-up call to advertisers, urging them to "get back to reality. "

來自蘇格蘭的議員對這個封禁表示支持，他說是應該叫那些化妝品廣告主醒醒了，讓他們回到現實中來。

You snuck out of the tub to leave a wake-up call!

你偷偷的離開浴缸是去跟服務員說要叫早！

The supply disruption is a real wake up call for Beijing and New Delhi to speed up the construction of strategic reserves.

供應中斷為北京和新德里敲響了警鐘，促使它們加快建設戰略石油儲備。

Colette Lewiner of Capgemini said the study should be a "wake-up call" for the energy industry, governments and regulators.

凱捷集團的科利特?萊溫納（ColetteLewiner）稱，這項研究應當成為能源行業、政府部門和監管機構的“警鐘”。

Rather, "the science is a wake-up call to say that we must think about different policy trajectories" to avoid catastrophic scenarios.

但是，“科學是一部喚醒電話。它告訴我們必須考慮其他政策途徑”以避免末日來臨。

Recent debt limit agreement was a wake-up call for people, predict this in the long term may worsen sharply.

近期的債務上限協議為人們敲響了警鐘，預示情況在長期內可能會大幅惡化。

That man's abandonment, is an indirect wake-up call for her.

那個男人的拋棄，是對她的一個間接警醒。

Her tragic death served as a wake-up call for the millions who crave artificial beauty in an often-unregulated environment.

她的死也是對很多為了美而在通常不規范的地方做手術的人的警示。

But they say the analysis should be a wake-up call for residents to prepare for a natural disaster in earthquake country.

但他們說這些分析是一個警鐘，可以讓在這個地震國家的居民對這種天災有所準備。

Would you tell the front desk that I need a wake-up call at 6 a. m. tomorrow morning while you're down stairs ?

你下樓石可否告知柜臺，我明天早上六點需要有人打電話叫醒我？

'It was a wake-up call for the industry, ' said a top French bank executive, who soon started dumping his Italian government bonds.

一位法國銀行高管說，這為行業敲響了警鐘。他很快開始拋售手中的意大利國債。

Mr Lockwood believes Japan has been a "huge wake-up call" but "most countries will realise uranium is the energy of the future" .

洛克伍德相信日本核危機會是“一記沉重的警鐘”，但“大多數國家都將意識到，鈾是未來的能源。”