参考词典中siren的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 女海妖,妖女,警报器,汽笛,迷人的美女
a. 诱惑的
vi. 响着警报器前进
常用短语
参考例句
- The wail of a siren.
呼啸的警报声 - the shrill wail of a siren.
警笛的尖啸 - A police car siren.
警车汽笛 - We heard the wailing of fire-engine sirens.
我们听到救火车汽笛的尖啸声。 - I heard the wail of a police siren.
我听见警笛的尖叫声。
- The wail of a siren.
英英解释
5个名词解释
- a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived
[例]- Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song
- a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
[同] delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren, temptress
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- a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound
- an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning
- eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills
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