siren

n. 汽笛；迷人的女人；歌声动人的女歌手

adj. 迷人的

vi. 响着警报器行驶

vt. 引诱

n.

汽笛；妖冶而危险的女人；危险的诱惑；塞壬（古希腊传说中半人半鸟的女海妖，惯以美妙的歌声引诱水手，使他们的船只或触礁或驶入危险水域）

变形

复数：sirens

双语释义

[C] 汽笛，警报器 an alarm or whistle

[C] 迷人的女人，妖妇 a beautiful woman who attracts men;beauty

英英释义

siren[ 'saiərən ]

n.

a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived

a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

同义词：enchantresstemptressDelilahfemme fatale

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

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

He made out of the cabin at once on hearing the siren.
他一听到汽笛声就立即走出船舱。

The wails of the siren woke the people out of their dreams.
汽笛的啸鸣把人们从睡梦中惊醒。

The siren went off at noon.
警笛在正午鸣响

We all heard the air-raid siren.
我们都听到了空袭警报器的声音。

用作名词(n.)

Who can resist your temptation like a siren.
有谁能抗拒你那份像塞壬一样的诱惑。

She played the siren in many early movies.
她在早期电影中扮演妖冶的女人。

It is said that she is a siren.
据说她是个妖艳女人。

权威例句

siren

siren: [14] The Seirēnes were sea nymphs who, according to Greek mythology, sat on rocks luring impressionable sailors to their doom with the sweetness of their singing. Latin took the word over as sīrēna, and it passed into English via Old French sereine. The term was applied to an acoustical instrument invented in 1819 by Cagniard de la Tour, that produced musical sounds and was used for measuring the frequency of sound waves, and it was this that formed the basis of its later use (in the 1870s) for a device for giving loud warning signals.

siren (n.)

mid-14c., "sea nymph who by her singing lures sailors to their destruction," from Old French sereine (12c., Modern French sirène) and directly from Latin Siren (Late Latin Sirena), from Greek Seiren ["Odyssey," xii.39 ff.], one of the Seirenes, mythical sisters who enticed sailors to their deaths with their songs, also in Greek "a deceitful woman," perhaps literally "binder, entangler," from seira "cord, rope." Meaning "device that makes a warning sound" (on an ambulance, etc.) first recorded 1879, in reference to steamboats, perhaps from similar use of the French word. Figurative sense of "one who sings sweetly and charms" is recorded from 1580s. The classical descriptions of them were mangled in medieval translations and glosses, resulting in odd notions of what they looked like.

1. Newt imitated a police siren softly.

纽特轻轻地模仿了一声警笛鸣叫。

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2. It is said that she is a siren.

据说她是个妖艳女人。

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3. I heard the wail of a police siren.

我听见警笛的尖叫声。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. The siren wailed and woke everyone.

警报器尖叫,把人们都惊醒了。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. The siren warned us that a police car was chasing us.

警报器告诉我们一辆警车正在追我们。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. A siren shrieked imperiously.

警号狂啸。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. The siren also reaches its pinnacle and then suddenly goes off.

警报声达到极限，然后嘎然而止。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. The siren, which had stopped briefly, wailed again.

刚刚停了不久的警号又呼啸起来。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. A siren. So you are.

一个狐狸精。你真是个狐狸精。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

10. The air is filled with angry shouts, the intermittent siren.

空气中充满着人们愤怒的吼声，断断续续的警报声。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句