英汉词典

siren 基本解释

• 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

siren 词态变化

siren 中文词源

来自拉丁语 Siren,来自希腊语 Seiren,塞ft，古希腊神话中居住于海岛上的精灵，通过诱惑性 的歌声吸引水手将船只划向她们所在岛屿处的万丈海渊。其名字字面意思可能为绑定者，捆 绑者，来自 seira,绳子，绳索，词源同 series.引申词义汽笛，警笛，警报器等。

siren 英文词源

siren

siren: [14] The Seirēnes were sea nymphs who, according to Greek mythology, sat on rocks luring impressionable sailors to their doom with the sweetness of their singing. Latin took the word over as sīrēna, and it passed into English via Old French sereine. The term was applied to an acoustical instrument invented in 1819 by Cagniard de la Tour, that produced musical sounds and was used for measuring the frequency of sound waves, and it was this that formed the basis of its later use (in the 1870s) for a device for giving loud warning signals.

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."

Meaning "device that makes a warning sound" (on an ambulance, etc.) first recorded 1879, in reference to steamboats, perhaps from similar use of the French word. Figurative sense of "one who sings sweetly and charms" is recorded from 1580s. The classical descriptions of them were mangled in medieval translations and glosses, resulting in odd notions of what they looked like.

siren 词组搭配

siren 英文释义

1. a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

2. a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound

3. an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

4. eel-like aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

siren 双语例句

1. People were awakened rudely by a siren just outside their window.

人们被窗外传来的汽笛声猛然惊醒了。

来自柯林斯例句

2. It sounds like an air raid siren.

那听起来像是空袭警报。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Somewhere in the distance a siren hooted.

远处某个地方响起了警报声。

来自柯林斯例句

4. The noise of the siren was deafening her.

汽笛声震得她耳朵都快聋了。

来自《权威词典》

5. A police car raced past with its siren wailing.

一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。

来自《权威词典》

siren 实用场景例句

an air-raid siren

空袭警报器

牛津词典

A police car raced past with its siren wailing.

一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。

牛津词典

The government must resist the siren voices calling for tax cuts.

政府万万不可听信那些鼓吹减税的动听言辞。

牛津词典

It sounds like an air raid siren.

那听起来像是空袭警报。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He depicts her as a siren who has drawn him to his ruin.

他把她描述成是红颜祸水——就是她毁掉了自己。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the voluptuous siren with a husky voice.

这个声音沙哑、性感迷人的妖女

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Unable to resist the siren call of the cards, he withdrew their savings and headed for Las Vegas...

他无法抵挡赌牌的诱惑，便提取了他们的存款前往拉斯韦加斯。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He said the United States was not willing to engage in a search for partial solutions — to succumb, as he put it, to a siren song.

他说美国不愿意参与仅仅解决部分问题的方案的探索——按照他的说法，这种做法就是向诱惑低头。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The tiresome pirate sounded siren and let off fireworks.

讨厌的海盗叫汽笛放焰火.

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A military helicopter hovered overhead , its emergency siren howling over the roar of its blades.

一架军用直升机在头顶盘旋,伴随着螺旋桨的轰鸣, 紧急报警器发出阵阵悲鸣.

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The air is filled with angry shouts, the intermittent siren.

空气中充满着人们愤怒的吼声, 断断续续的警报声.

辞典例句

The crowd panicked at the ringing of the siren.

听到警报器响,人群惊慌失措.

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Pull over side of the road when you hear a siren.

当听到警报器的声音时,把车停靠在路边.

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Ming put the alarm at the scene when ordered raid siren.

各警报鸣放现场,警报试鸣时秩序井然.

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From the sound of that siren, the police car was right on our tail.

从警笛的声音判断, 警车已经紧跟我们后面.

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Athena: You must find and destroy the final Siren before you may pass.

雅典娜: “你必须发现并且消灭最后的一个塞壬,在你的通道打开之前.

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Siren or marker light may be installed on a motorized vehicle according to personal need.

机动车可根据个人需要安装警报器或者标志灯具.

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The cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren.

这些汽车听到愈来愈近的警笛声便停了下来.

《简明英汉词典》

He succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness.

他屈从于自然对他的迷人诱惑.

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The siren reaches its top and then suddenly goes off.

警报声响到了极点接着突然消失.

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PLAINTIVE siren wails as a government unit , invisible in the darkness, patrols.

作为政府最小的单元——巡逻车, 在幽暗中哀怨的哭泣.

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His voice is drowned by the dissonant scream of a siren outside.

她的声音被外面杂乱刺耳的警报声吞没了.

辞典例句

Newt imitated a police siren softly.

纽特轻轻地模仿了一声警笛鸣叫.

辞典例句

Hearing the siren from the mine, all the miners'wives were greatly alarmed.

听到矿上的警报后, 所有的矿工的妻子都受到极大的惊吓.

《用法词典》

The screeching was upstaged by a shrieking siren ; the signal to start. The machines moved.

一声尖利的汽笛压住了所有刺耳的声音——演出开始了,机器斗士动起来了!

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The crowd waved and the liner responded with a blast on its siren.

人群挥手相送,大客轮鸣响汽笛作答.

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