| 单词 | alarming |
| 释义 | alarming (əlɑːʳmɪŋ ) adjective Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. The disease has spread at an alarming rate. ...the alarming increase in crime. Synonyms: frightening, shocking, scaring, disturbing alarmingly adverb ...the alarmingly high rate of heart disease. Collocations: alarming amount of And they have given away an alarming amount of goals through defensive mistakes. The Sun And an alarming amount of them have been self-inflicted, too. The Sun The post includes a threat of bailiffs if debts are not cleared and an alarming amount of correspondence from one high-street bank. Times, Sunday Times He found that cities suffered alarming amounts of soot compared with rural towns, but was criticised and accused of sensationalism. Times, Sunday Times Short and skinny, with the softest of voices, he sports black brogues, black jeans and black spiky hair, and subsists on alarming amounts of coffee — black, too. Times, Sunday Times Long delays in the crown courts are having truly alarming consequences. Times,Sunday Times If it were translated into other contexts it would have alarming consequences for the law of discrimination generally. Times, Sunday Times Just avoid cheap, unbranded pedals, because their bindings have a tendency to jam - with alarming consequences. Times, Sunday Times These are the alarming consequences of an authoritarian regime that sees the state as paramount and the people as pygmies. The Sun Someone needs to ponder where this might ultimately lead and whether, left unrestricted and hardly regulated, there may be more perilous and alarming consequences. Times, Sunday Times It mirrors our culture to an alarming degree. Christianity Today His team selections are erratic, his messages are conflicting and the atmosphere at the club's training ground has soured to an alarming degree. Times, Sunday Times Bees, butterflies and insect populations are shrinking to an alarming degree. Times,Sunday Times To an alarming degree they have succeeded. Times, Sunday Times He had previously seemed uncomfortable, but not to an alarming degree. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's an alarming figure, sure, but if none of those arrests had happened, national rates would have decreased by a mere 0.4 per cent. Times, Sunday Times However, our poll shows that despite today's alarming figures, levels of support are falling. The Sun Alarming figures show almost 18,000 workers have been rapped in the past five years. The Sun Five under-12s tipped the scales at 20 stone or more last year, alarming figures reveal. The Sun Alarming figures revealed households will be spending a total of 68.4billion more than they earn in 2020-2021. The Sun The most alarming finding was the prevalence of behavioural problems by the age of nine months. Times, Sunday Times The alarming finding of a 'strong level of disenchantment' in all ranks comes in an official survey of the judiciary after successive cuts to their earnings alongside deteriorating working conditions. Times, Sunday Times The results were not all good news; we'll get to the alarming findings later. Times, Sunday Times Initial concerns regarding benzodiazepines in pregnancy began with alarming findings in animals but these do not necessarily cross over to humans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When they catch fire — as they do with alarming frequency — or collapse during storms, we react as though a national institution has come under threat. Times, Sunday Times Beneath it, tectonic plates shift with alarming frequency. Times, Sunday Times Over the past few years, it has boomeranged back into fashion with alarming frequency. Times, Sunday Times My own local authority, conversely, offers overmanicured verges juxtaposed with an alarming frequency of unrepaired potholes, suggesting budget prioritisation issues. Times, Sunday Times With things changing so rapidly, you'd have to revise those promises with alarming frequency. Times, Sunday Times But the rapid adoption of internet-related technologies, from mobile working to ecommerce, has been accompanied by an alarming increase in internet and data crime. Times, Sunday Times No one knows how to explain this alarming increase in excess deaths, which began in 2012 and gathered pace in 2015. Times, Sunday Times The unfavorable situation was compounded by bad weather and an alarming increase in sickness among the troops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Paralleled to this there has been an alarming increase in bacterial resistance to existing agents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Security experts and police sources also tell of alarming increases in thefts of vehicles with keyless entry systems. Times, Sunday Times Just like the alarming lack of public backing for the manager despite the mounting criticism of him. The Sun Yet the virus has exposed an alarming lack of ministers and officials capable of turning policy into action. Times,Sunday Times They are displaying an alarming lack of social conscience. Times, Sunday Times It has not been a bad start to the tournament, by any means, but there has been an alarming lack of goals. Times, Sunday Times They dropped too many points because of an alarming lack of depth in their squad. The Sun Suffering from recurrent headaches, he had increased his intake of analgesics to an alarming level. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The reforms, though largely beneficial, have created an alarming level of uncertainty as to the question of what law applies in cross-border securities transactions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The housing market continues to contract at alarming levels. Times, Sunday Times And in well-insulated, airtight homes the level of these pollutants can rise to alarming levels. Times, Sunday Times Most carry alarming levels of debt, which transfer fees abroad can alleviate. Times, Sunday Times But a couple of years ago, more alarming news about mysterious bee diseases started to appear in the media. Times, Sunday Times Alarming news for students: plans are afoot to change the system of classifying degrees. Times, Sunday Times I'm amazed no other paper has picked up on this alarming news. The Sun Nearly as laughable, in fact, as the alarming news that the country has a parenting academy looking into this sort of thing. Times, Sunday Times Taking matters into her own hands, she calls the medical centre for her results only to receive even more alarming news. The Sun Clearly an alarming number of players don't know the rule regarding handball in the first place. The Sun Yet there are suggestions that an alarming number of people would refuse to be inoculated. Times,Sunday Times His players threw the towel in yesterday, as indeed they have done on an alarming number of occasions this season. Times, Sunday Times It would have been more admirable had it also prevented the alarming number of enforced marriages that take advantage of legal and parliamentary reluctance to assert civilised values. Times, Sunday Times Universities have been awarding places to an increasingly alarming number of young people who simply do not reach the standards set by these historic institutions. Times, Sunday Times The starting point for government thinking lies with two studies that paint an alarming picture of the nation's skills gap. Times, Sunday Times It's easy to paint an alarming picture of the perils of living in a city with a classic car. Times, Sunday Times It contains several inaccuracies and paints an alarming picture of the impact of national road tolls on families. Times, Sunday Times The course has also lost an alarming proportion of its average crowd and a distressing number of key sponsors. Times, Sunday Times An alarming proportion of retirees still are not comparing deals, potentially missing out on thousands of pounds of income in their old age. Times, Sunday Times But the very fact that it exists, tells us that the growth of the fraud industry has reached alarming proportions. Times, Sunday Times The problem has reached alarming proportions. Outlook India Despite these changes, strike activity again reached alarming proportions in the 1890s, resulting in the restriction of the workday to eleven and a half hours in 1897. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a seductive and alarming prospect: the crackpot inventor's grandson, hot-wiring our brains into his latest alternate reality. Times, Sunday Times That's an alarming prospect for anyone who sees the film. Times, Sunday Times A more alarming prospect would be if caesium had escaped. Times, Sunday Times United's need for improvement has become urgent as they face the alarming prospect of finishing outside the top four for the first time in 23 years. Times, Sunday Times As the technology becomes more broadly available, they imagine headbands in every office - and the alarming prospect of employers capable of monitoring the brain performance of their workforce. Times, Sunday Times The decline of the pound erodes spending power at an alarming rate. Times, Sunday Times After that, things start to head south at an alarming rate. Times, Sunday Times But in recent years the ice has been shrinking at an alarming rate. Times, Sunday Times And their numbers are growing at an alarming rate. Times, Sunday Times Deforestation accounts for almost 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, and the forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Times, Sunday Times But are dummies really as dangerous as this alarming report suggests? The Sun In an alarming report, she said colleges were flooding the job market with youngsters with lowlevel qualifications, leaving them woefully underprepared. The Sun He had knee operations in 2012 and 2013, at one stage there were alarming reports, later denied, that the condition was degenerative. Times, Sunday Times The figure was the result of a sharp increase in army salaries after alarming reports of officers resigning and troops going absent without leave. Times, Sunday Times It added there was an alarming rise in customers complaining about mobile phone, travel and car insurance. The Sun The study found, 'an alarming rise in narcissism and self-centredness'. Times, Sunday Times His call comes amid an alarming rise in teacher dropout rates. The Sun The result was a sharp contraction in production and output, a rush of bankruptcies and an alarming rise in unemployment. Times, Sunday Times The impact on housing has been greatest with an alarming rise in overcrowded properties. The Sun Many are showing alarming signs of distress, rocking their heads back and forth, and there are fears that fights will break out. Times,Sunday Times After a period of relative recovery in the eurozone there are once again alarming signs. Times, Sunday Times Instead, the world showed alarming signs of overheating in 2010. Times, Sunday Times An estimated 100,000 young people run away each year and there are alarming signs that those who flee are getting younger and younger. Times, Sunday Times There are no alarming signs. Times, Sunday Times But then it went belly-up with spectacular and alarming speed. The Sun What's acceptable and unacceptable in polite society changes with alarming speed. Times, Sunday Times Her career also began to unravel at alarming speed. The Sun His mood could switch at alarming speed: exhilaration could turn to despair, and not only when he drank. Times, Sunday Times Her dancers launch off things and slam into them, soaring at alarming speed and with jolting force. Times, Sunday Times According to experts, it's an alarming statistic, though not surprising. The Sun It's an alarming statistic that the club has won four times in 55 matches. Times, Sunday Times The wash-out rate was nearly identical to the men's programs, at roughly 37%, during its first four years; an alarming statistic to observers of both programs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In fact, sleep apnoea sufferers are so zonked out that they have an alarming tendency to fall asleep at the wheel. Times, Sunday Times It has an alarming tendency to escape and end up raising awkward questions about ethics in other areas, and most painfully how we interact with others of our own species. The Times Literary Supplement This was apparently an inherently unstable machine, possessed of an alarming tendency to go into a fatal right-hand spin. Times, Sunday Times In particular, the aircraft exhibited an alarming tendency to roll while in flight, the cause of which was traced to the extreme torque developed by the four-bladed propeller. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was 'an alarming trend of limiting freedom of expression on university campuses', the lawyers added. Times, Sunday Times These records date back more than 40 years and show an alarming trend across the past decade. Times,Sunday Times The research also uncovered an alarming trend - that the focus on improving education, access and social inclusion was diverting museums from building their collections. Times, Sunday Times The world was full of extreme weather in 2011 that highlighted an alarming trend — weather disasters are becoming more costly. Times, Sunday Times An alarming trend has developed over the past few years, in which the forces of law and order have started to regulate what are, in effect, private jokes. Times, Sunday Times Long delays in the crown courts are having truly alarming consequences. Times,Sunday Times This bloodlust raises a truly alarming question: can capitalism and democracy survive side by side? Times, Sunday Times Upon which we and a few others met and consulted how to act on so truly alarming and melancholy occasion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our shocking pictures show how reckless drivers around the country are endangering lives by phoning and texting with alarming regularity. The Sun (2013) Let's begin with two conversations I have with alarming regularity. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Ministers resigned with alarming regularity. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Over the years that followed, our paths crossed with alarming regularity. Times, Sunday Times (2015) One thing happening with alarming regularity is extreme weather in summer. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Translations: Chinese: 令人担忧 Japanese: 警戒心をいだかせる |
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