alarum

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /əˈlɑ.ɹəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A danger signal or warning.
    — These are the only visible luxuries: the rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty's needs: a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth in them, a draped packing case with a basin and jug on it and a little looking glass over it, a chair and table, the refuse of some suburban kitchen, and an American alarum clock on the shelf above the unused fireplace: the whole lighted with a gas lamp with a penny in the slot meter.
  2. A call to arms.
    — Come let vs meet them at the mountain foot, / And with a ſodaine and an hot alarum / Driue all their horſes headlong down the hill.
  3. An alarm clock. archaic
    — Ten minutes passed by the measure of the battered old alarum on the dresser shelf before the young man returned.
动词 v.
  1. To sound alarums, to sound an alarm. archaic
    — Now o're the one halfe World / Nature ſeemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuſe / The Curtain'd ſleepe: Witchcraft celebrates / Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, / Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe, / Whoſe howle's his Watch, thus with his ſtealthy pace, / With Tarquins rauiſhing ſides, towards his deſigne / Moues like a Ghoſt.

词形变化

alarums plural allarum alternative alarums present,singular,third-person alaruming participle,present alarumed participle,past alarumed past allarum alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
alarums and excursions

词源

词源 1
From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).
词源 2
From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).
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