wake up call

基本解释

In a sense, 'Voices of the Poor' is a wake up call for all people and organizations concerned with poverty.
在某种意义上，《穷人的呼声》是唤醒所有关心贫困问题的人们和组织的呼声。
Today "the dollar is America's—and China's—currency but the rest of the world's problem", (paraphrasing US Treasury Secretary John Connally's 1971 wake up call to the Europeans and Japanese).
如今，“美元是美国——以及中国——的货币，但它也是令世界其他国家和地区头疼的问题”（改编自美国财政部长约翰•康纳利于1971年向欧洲及日本发出的预警）。
The events of this year are a wake up call.
今年的一系列事件给我们敲响了警钟。

He says the financial crisis should be seen as a wake-up call to change systems and ways of thinking, and to re-establish trust.
It kind of was a wake up call in Germany because they were watching with amusement the subprime crisis in the United States and here it was causing losses to the German Government.
这次危机震醒了德国,当初德国还把,美国次贷危机当笑话看,德国政府付出了沉重的代价
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For example, you could request a wake-up call in the morning.
比如你想要早晨的叫醒服务。
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Perhaps Lorraine Bayless has left us all with an important wake up call.
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