fire alarm

noun
🔊/ˈfaɪər əlɑːm/
🔊/ˈfaɪər əlɑːrm/
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  1. a bell or other device that gives people warning of a fire in a building火警钟;火警报警器
    • Who set off the fire alarm?谁拉响了火警报警器?🔊🔊
    • It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器被拉响是个恶作剧。
    • The fire alarm went off when I was making a coffee.我正在煮咖啡的时候火警报警器响了。
    Topics Houses and homesb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + fire alarm
    • set off
    • install
    fire alarm + verb
    • go
    • go off
    • sound
    fire-alarm + noun
    • system
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  2. an occasion when a fire alarm goes off
    • We had a fire alarm at work this morning.今天早上我们在工作时有火灾报警器。