sirens

英 [ˈsaɪərənz]

美 [ˈsaɪrənz]

n.  汽笛; 警报器; 塞壬(古希腊神话中半人半鸟或半人半鱼的女海妖，以美妙歌声诱使航海者驶向礁石或进入危险水域); 妖冶而危险的女人; 性感妖女
siren的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 汽笛;警报器
  Asirenis a warning device which makes a long, loud noise. Most fire engines, ambulances, and police cars have sirens.
  1. It sounds like an air raid siren.
     那听起来像是空袭警报。
• N-COUNT 妖艳而危险的女人;妖妇
  Some people refer to a woman as asirenwhen they think that she is attractive to men but dangerous in some way.
  1. 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。
  2. ...the voluptuous siren with a husky voice.
     这个声音沙哑、性感迷人的妖女
• PHRASE 诱人的东西;诱惑
  Asiren callorsiren songis the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• You can hear its loud sirens and see its bright lights.
  你可以听见它那大声的鸣笛声及看到那明亮的灯光。
• The fire engines were just pulling up, sirens blaring
  消防车正要停下来，警报器发出刺耳的声音。
• Sirens pierced the silence of the night.
  警笛声划破了夜晚的宁静。
• Odysseus and his sailors managed to escape the sirens.
  奥德修斯和他的水手逃离了塞壬。
• I only remember a frenzy of ambulances and long clean sirens cleaving the silence of that damp October night.
  我只记得救护车的鸣笛声和长长的刺耳的警笛声划破了阴冷的十月的夜晚的安静。
• In big cities you hear police sirens all the time.
  在大城市里，你总能听到警笛声。
• She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail.
  她听到警报器发出可怕的尖叫声。
• The public opinion cops switched on their sirens.
  舆论警察们拉响了警报。
• Look, about the sirens and the strobe lights.
  听着，关于这警报和这些灯光。
• Since World War I, FWS has been the leading manufacturer of warning sirens.
  自第一次世界大战时起，FWS已经成为了警报器生产行业中的领军人物。