wake-up call

wake-up call

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• n.催醒电话；叫早电话；让人警醒的事
• 网络叫醒电话；叫醒服务；唤醒服务

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"It has certainly been a wake-up call to equity at the point of entry. "

“这当然是你初入职场时在公平方面得到的一记警钟”。

Maybe one of these days I'll tell you how I got my wake-up call, it is an interesting story.

可能这些天的某一天我将告诉你我是如何觉醒的，那是一个有趣的故事。

Harry: Last night, I discovered something wonderful. It was a wake-up call, a way to look at myself and what I really want out of life.

哈利：昨天晚上，我发现一些奇妙的事情。有人敲响了警钟，这是一种审视自己，我真想要的生活。

He says it was a shock, and a wake-up call, when the only work he could find was a low-paying restaurant job.

他说，当他唯一能找到的工作只是拿低薪在餐馆打工时，他震惊了，开始清醒了。

The inability to watch videos or download podcasts and music was a bit of a wake-up call about how high my expectations have risen.

我们不能观看视频，无法下载语音文件和各种音乐，不过这倒像是一个小闹铃，它提醒我，自己曾对网络有著多么高的期望。

Next morning, when she did not answer a wake-up call, her mother went to the apartment and found her daughter battered and bloodied.

第二天早晨，当她没有回应清晨唤醒电话后，她的母亲去了公寓，并发现她的女儿被殴打得满身血迹。

England seems to be suffering from a deadly case of deja vu, or perhaps, a wake up call.

英格兰似乎正在经受着曾经的切肤之痛，或者这也许是一种唤醒的召唤。

"We have to see this as a wake-up call, " Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an interview on Monday.

“我们不得不将这件事情当作叫醒电话，”周一，教育部长阿恩·邓肯在访谈中说。

This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?

这座小镇真是让人有点兴奋，你不觉得吗？

This episode is a wake-up call to any company perceived to be hostage to one person alone. Even if it is true.

对于那些在人们眼里完全依托于一个人——即使这是真实情况——的公司来说，这件事不啻一记警钟。

To me, it's something of a wake-up-call to realise that a couple who make $75, 000 each are in the top 5% of American households.

对我来说，这提醒我意识到一对夫妇，当双方都挣到$75,000时才会进入到收入前5%的家庭。

Strikes over the last 2 months have been a wake-up call for many foreign companies that depend on China's low costs to compete overseas.

近两个月来的罢工事件为多家外企敲醒了警钟：不能再尽情享受中国低廉的人力成本带来的海外竞争优势。

"If letters are sent with both 'Haringey' and 'children' in the same sentence, then that should have been a real wake-up call. "

“如果那些信件以及‘哈林盖’和‘孩子们’同时在判决书中出现，应该说那才是一个真正的唤醒服务。”

That seems to me to be a huge wake up call for on-line travel companies.

对我来说，这相当于为在线旅游企业敲响了警钟。

If the failure in Copenhagen can act as a wake-up call to the biodiversity community, that itself will have been a positive achievement.

如果哥本哈根的失败能够起到唤醒生物多样性界的作用，那么它本身就是一项积极的成就。

It has been a real wake up call for HIV researchers all over.

这确实是对所有艾滋病研究者的清凉剂。

"It was a real wake-up call to us, " he said.

“这给我们敲了一个警钟。”

There has been a range of speculation about the nature of the threat posed by the botnet, from a wake-up call to a devastating attack.

关于僵尸网络构成的威胁有着广泛的投机，从唤醒命令直至破坏性的攻击。

"This should be a wake-up call to parents: you and your kids want the exact same thing. What's missing are the proper tools, " Irwin added.

欧文还说：“这项调查给父母们提了个醒：你和你的孩子想要的是完全相同的东西，你所缺乏的只是合适的方式而已。”

Let us hope that this summer of extremes is a last-minute wake-up call to policy makers, the corporate world, and citizens alike.

我们要相信，今年夏天的极端气候事件是在最后关头向决策者、全世界以及全体公民敲响的警钟。

The book serves as a warning sign and a wake up call to anyone concerned about fate of the American democratic process.

本书是个警告信号，它试图唤醒所有关心美国民主命运的人。

Fourth, the United States sub-loan crisis of our MBS to carry out a wake-up call.

美国次贷危机为我们开展MBS敲响了警钟。

Anthony Costello, director of UCL's Institute for Global Health, said that helping to write the report had been a personal wake-up call.

伦敦大学学院的全球健康研究所的负责人安东尼科斯特洛说，协助撰写这篇报告使他有机会自我反省。

I am honoured to address this session, and I am strong in my conviction that this meeting must serve as a wake-up call.

能在本次会议上讲话我倍感荣幸，我也坚信本次会议必将为人们敲响警钟。

But the debt crisis was a wake-up call to policymakers to put the house in order, and they have done a lot to deal with it.

但债务危机为政策制定者们敲响了警钟，和他们作出了很多努力。

The Great Recession should have been a huge wake-up call.

大衰退应该是一个声音巨大的起床铃。

In some cases, than a wake-up call "lesson time" to be good because, as can at least make up for.

有时候，当头棒喝远比“时间的教训”要好的多，因为，那样至少还可以弥补。

But public revulsion at the excesses of the financial industry has been a wake-up call to companies in all sectors.

然而，公众对金融业无节制行为的反弹使各行业的公司企业如梦方醒。

The Scottish MP welcomed the ban, and said it should act as a wake-up call to advertisers, urging them to "get back to reality. "

来自苏格兰的议员对这个封禁表示支持，他说是应该叫那些化妆品广告主醒醒了，让他们回到现实中来。

You snuck out of the tub to leave a wake-up call!

你偷偷的离开浴缸是去跟服务员说要叫早！

The supply disruption is a real wake up call for Beijing and New Delhi to speed up the construction of strategic reserves.

供应中断为北京和新德里敲响了警钟，促使它们加快建设战略石油储备。

Colette Lewiner of Capgemini said the study should be a "wake-up call" for the energy industry, governments and regulators.

凯捷集团的科利特•莱温纳（ColetteLewiner）称，这项研究应当成为能源行业、政府部门和监管机构的“警钟”。

Rather, "the science is a wake-up call to say that we must think about different policy trajectories" to avoid catastrophic scenarios.

但是，“科学是一部唤醒电话。它告诉我们必须考虑其他政策途径”以避免末日来临。

Recent debt limit agreement was a wake-up call for people, predict this in the long term may worsen sharply.

近期的债务上限协议为人们敲响了警钟，预示情况在长期内可能会大幅恶化。

That man's abandonment, is an indirect wake-up call for her.

那个男人的抛弃，是对她的一个间接警醒。

Her tragic death served as a wake-up call for the millions who crave artificial beauty in an often-unregulated environment.

她的死也是对很多为了美而在通常不规范的地方做手术的人的警示。

But they say the analysis should be a wake-up call for residents to prepare for a natural disaster in earthquake country.

但他们说这些分析是一个警钟，可以让在这个地震国家的居民对这种天灾有所准备。

Would you tell the front desk that I need a wake-up call at 6 a. m. tomorrow morning while you're down stairs ?

你下楼石可否告知柜台，我明天早上六点需要有人打电话叫醒我？

'It was a wake-up call for the industry, ' said a top French bank executive, who soon started dumping his Italian government bonds.

一位法国银行高管说，这为行业敲响了警钟。他很快开始抛售手中的意大利国债。

Mr Lockwood believes Japan has been a "huge wake-up call" but "most countries will realise uranium is the energy of the future" .

洛克伍德相信日本核危机会是“一记沉重的警钟”，但“大多数国家都将意识到，铀是未来的能源。”