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si·ren /ˈsaɪərən $ ˈsaɪr-/ noun [countableC]

1 TWARNa piece of equipment that makes very loud warning sounds, used on police cars, fire engines etc 〔警车、消防车等的〕汽笛，警报器

the wail of the ambulance sirens

救护车汽笛的尖啸

I heard police sirens in the distance.

我听到了远处的警笛声。

2 siren voices/song/call literaryPERSUADE encouragement to do something that seems very good, especially when this could have bad results 诱人的花言巧语〔尤指可能有不良后果〕

siren voices calling for the sale of weapons to the region

鼓动把武器出售给该地区的谗言

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siren voices/song/call• Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song.• Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up.• The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties.• Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go.• Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?• This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region.• They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd.

3 ATTRACTa woman who is very attractive but also dangerous to men – used especially in newspapers 妖艳而危险的女人，妖妇〔尤用于报纸〕

a Hollywood siren

一个好莱坞妖妇

4. the Sirens RMa group of women in ancient Greek stories, whose beautiful singing made sailors sail towards them into dangerous water 塞壬〔古希腊故事中用美妙歌声引诱水手进入危险水域的一群女妖〕

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the Sirens• The station doors opened and the sirens started screaming.• He saved the heroes, too, from the Sirens.• Before long he would hear the sirens of approaching police cars come at my summons to arrest him for being off limits.• From Circe he had learned that they must pass the island of the Sirens.• Once more politics was tempted by the song the sirens sang.• He felt the heat beating in, midnight vibrations, the sirens down Canal, the growl of some solo drunk.• That's when the sirens went and we had to go to the shelter.

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siren• In the distance a siren wailed.• Voices, music, sirens, horns were louder, brasher, more frantic.• Bet you didn't know, for instance, that there's a nuclear siren right here in the village?• I fall asleep to the drone of sirens and helicopters overhead.• I howl with the blaring of the air raid sirens.• At six, he sounds the siren on his way home to supper and usually is a few minutes fast.• There's this siren going behind me, getting louder and louder, and I turn round to have a look.• With sirens blaring and amber lights flashing, the squad cars slewed to a halt at the rear of a war-torn Cadillac.

Origin siren

1. (1300-1400) Old French sereine, from Latin siren, from Greek seiren;

2. French sirène, from Old French sereine

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