柯林斯詞典wake-up call (wake-up calls) 1. N-COUNT A wake-up call is a telephone call that you can arrange through an operator or at a hotel to make sure that you wake up at a particular time. (縂機(jī)、賓館等提供的) 叫醒電話 I book a wake-up call for 4:45 a.m. 我預(yù)訂了淩晨4點(diǎn)45分的叫醒電話。2. N-COUNT If you describe something bad that happens as a wake-up call, you mean that it acts as a warning that action needs to be taken to prevent something even worse from happening. 警鍾 He urged her to treat the arrest as a wake-up call. 他力勸她把這次拘捕儅作一次警鍾。 返回 wake-up call劍橋詞典If something that happens is a wake-up call , it should make you realize that you need to take action to change a situation . 警示，警鍾 For the insurance industry , these floods were a wake-up call . 對(duì)保險(xiǎn)業(yè)來(lái)說，這些洪水敲響了警鍾。 a phone call that you arrange to be made, for example in a hotel , to wake you up at a certain time （旅館、酒店的）電話叫醒服務(wù) 返回 wake-up call