| 释义 |
be on the watchBe on the alert for something, especially a possible danger: he was already on the watch for any more suspicious moves...- We also ask our church members and sympathetic local people to be on the watch for anything or anyone suspicious.
- If they had not been on the watch for raiders, they would have had time to find it beautiful.
- These two new studies point to the need for parents and pediatricians to be on the watch for what might appear to be less serious breathing problems in their babies and young children when they sleep.
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