alarm: [14] Alarm was originally a call to arms. It comes from the Old Italian phrase all’ arme ‘to the weapons!’ This was lexicalized as the noun allarme, which was borrowed into Old French as alarme, and thence into English. The archaic variant alarum seems to have arisen from an emphatic rolling of the r accompanying a prolongation of the final syllable when the word was used as an exclamation. => arm
alarm (n.)
early 14c., from Old French alarme (14c.), from Italian all'arme "to arms!" (literally "to the arms"). An interjection that came to be used as the word for the call or warning (compare alert). Extended 16c. to "any sound to warn of danger or to arouse." Weakened sense of "apprehension, unease" is from 1833. Variant alarum is due to the rolling -r- in the vocalized form. Sometimes in early years anglicized as all-arm. Alarm clock is attested from 1690s (as A Larum clock).
alarm (v.)
1580s, from alarm (n.). Related: Alarmed; alarming.
雙語例句
1. Any escape, once it's detected, sets off the alarm.
一旦發現有泄漏，警報就會響起來。
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2. He returned to the airport to find his car alarm going off.
他回到機場時聽到自己的汽車報警器響了。
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3. He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.
他對政府越來越具挑釁性的聲明表示擔憂。
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4. This has set the alarm bells ringing in Moscow.
這已給莫斯科拉響了警報。
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5. An alarm links the police station to the divisional headquarters.