| 单词 | air raid warning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair raid warning air raid warning n. a public warning about impending air raids, usually given by means of a siren.The earliest air raid warnings, encouraging public preparedness, were issued as written announcements. ΚΠ 1915 Times 13 Sept. 3/3 (heading) The British Fire Prevention Committee announce that their Air Raid ‘Warning’ as to the nature of the bombs and how to deal with the fires arising from them, is being reissued in the form of a small poster. 1917 Flying 1 Aug. 18/2 The Home Secretary stated..that air-raid warnings would be given by signal rockets. 1941 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 12 Jan. (1995) 47 Air raid warnings are frequent here, but (so far) remain just warnings. 2006 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. a8 His comments were interrupted by an air-raid warning, one of dozens that sound every day. < as lemmas |
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