学个词-1771-false-alarm
今天我们要学的词是false alarm. False alarm的意思是乌龙,假警报。美国德州遭受龙卷风袭击,据说,On average, roughly 70% of all tornado warnings are false alarms. 平均来说,大约有百分之70的龙卷风警报都是虚惊一场。报假火警会浪费公用资源,Some cities in the U.S. are considering starting to issue fines for false alarms. 美国的一些城市在考虑,对报假火警的人予以罚款。美国联邦参议员莱文的办公室收到可疑信件,Preliminary FBI testing shows that the letter was not contaminated with poison and was a false alarm. FBI 的初步化验显示信件并没有被下毒,是虚惊一场。好的,今天我们学习的词是 false alarm, false alarm, false alarm... |