| 词汇 | alerted |
| 释义 | alerted past simple and past participle ofalert alert verb[ T ] uk /əˈlɜːt/ us /əˈlɝːt/ C2 to warn someone of a possibly dangerous situation: 使警觉，使警惕;向…发出警报 An anonymous letter alerted police to the possibility of a terrorist attack at the airport.有人给警察写了一封匿名信，警告机场可能会受到恐怖袭击。 If you hear a flood warning, please alert your neighbours and make emergency preparations. Until I saw my statement, there was nothing to alert me that someone else was using my credit card number. We encourage parents to alert the school about any concerns or difficulties at home. We don't want to alarm people unnecessarily, but they should be alerted to potential dangers. A note of formality in his voice alerted her to the fact that others were listening.他语气中的一丝拘谨提醒了她有别人在听他们的谈话。 Threats & warnings advance warning alarm alarm bell bell-ringing beware the ides of Marchidiom bow brushback pitch burglar alarm cautionary cautionary tale dare early warning system hear warning bellsidiom minatory one swallow doesn't make a summeridiom protection racket red alert red flag scare quotes yellow card Examples of alertedalerted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The system automatically propagated the constraints generated by the designer's decisions and alerted the designer of any conflicts. So alerted, we can expect questions to arise about the relationship of the human good and human goodness. In doing so, the immune system is alerted by the entry of only a few intruders as occurs in natural infections. Doctors were alerted early and advised on several occasions not to prescribe anti-motility drugs and antibiotics. Difficult relations with coal operators alerted labour to the danger of divide-and-rule tactics. Thus, it constantly alerted the government to the need of keeping a tight rein on criminal and subversive elements. The instant we hear 'lest' our minds are alerted to concentrate on the significance of the following clause. His retreating to her when he has been startled, alerted, slightly hurt, mildly frightened or fatigued seldom elicits her attention. Punctuation delineates rhetorical structure, so that a reader can be explicitly alerted to certain formal contrivances relevant to the communicative significances embodied in a text. The number of parent falsely alerted for every true case found is minimal. Another incident occurred in 1986 that alerted me to the growth of a new and alternative world view and ethos. A friend alerted me to the need for funds. The mere comparison between how our ears listen and how the microphone picks up sounds in the environment, brings alerted awareness to the soundscape. Nuclear waste facilities and radioactivitycontaminated houses also alerted different people to the nuclear danger. Do you leave out all such usages so that the writer is never alerted to a possible area of concern? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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