alarming的意思|alarming的解释-里氏词典

alarming [ə'lɑrmɪŋ]

a. 使人惊恐的, 引起惊恐的

One that is striking or alarming.
引人注目的人，惊人的人
The rapid spread of the disease is alarming the medical authorities.
这种疾病的迅速蔓延使医疗当局感到忧虑不安。
He looked alarming.
他看起来很惊人。

alarming

[ adj ]
frightening because of an awareness of danger
<adj.all>

Alarming \A*larm"ing\, a.
Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing
apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. --
A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

Alarm \A*larm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alarmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Alarming}.] [Alarm, n. Cf. F. alarmer.]
1. To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one)
of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action;
to put on the alert.

2. To keep in excitement; to disturb.

3. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with
anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with
sudden fear.

Alarmed by rumors of military preparation.
--Macaulay.

TRY GROUP, the contractor and housebuilder, yesterday warned against what it called an alarming trend of below-cost tendering in the industry. At the same time, it reported net attributable losses reduced from a restated Pounds 3m to Pounds 1.93m.
This number has been cut to 1,800 and the aim is to reach about 1,000 by the end of 1995. The rationalisation of the industry is having alarming consequences for jobs.
It has also been blamed for some alarming side-effects, including the deforestation of Alaskan land and efforts by some of the Alaskan corporations to generate artificial losses.
Calming the waters is something very much needed, as the Sandinistas nurse the wounds of defeat and deal with the alarming thought that some of their dearest "achievements of the revolution" might be reversed.
This was alarming to Mr. Ferrari because at the end of his vacation he had discovered that he had driven the rented van with the parking brake engaged the whole time.
More alarming, they say, provisions allowing the Soviets to keep empty warhead slots on their missiles and to retain some missiles in storage give the Kremlin an option to build back strategic forces rapidly.
"The situation is not grave, but certainly alarming.
Yet, they wrote: "Since the late 1970s, there has been an alarming reversal.
In a news conference today, four food-industry trade associations are expected to criticize the pesticide project for needlessly alarming consumers.
Deposit rates are still miserly but the market is living up to its alarming reputation.
In the coming weeks, we will have an opportunity to begin the reversal of this alarming trend.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the estimates of exposure in children are alarming and called for increased federal efforts to regulate and clean up lead in the environment.
Charles Wheeler, director of the National Center for Immigrants' Rights in Los Angeles, called this development alarming.
As part of its effort to reassure Jordan, the government has requested officials to avoid alarming statements, such as claims by right-wing politicians that a Palestinian state should be created in Jordan, the government official said.
Poland has been suffering from inflation that has reached 50 percent a month, as well as an alarming drop in production of meat, coal and industrial goods.
Intervention in press freedoms has reached an alarming level.
His government then embraced Cuba, alarming the United States and foreign investors.
Such language is a bit more alarming than the tenor of the report itself.
In Bangkok, the Siriraj hospital reports the number of pregnant women infected increased by 60 per cent between the last quarter of 1991 and the same three months in 1992. In India, too, the rate of increase of infection is alarming.
Residents of this Pittsburgh suburb got an alarming wake-up call before dawn Friday when a siren normally reserved for a nuclear attack was accidentally activated. But few paid attention.
Those numbers, said Dr. Mercy, help explain an alarming increase in recent years in homicides of young black males. Last December, the CDC reported that the homicide rate for black males aged 15 to 19 nearly doubled between 1984 and 1988.
But the scale of yesterday's announcement is alarming for companies and investors alike, and ought to be of fundamental concern to the Stock Exchange.
Mr. Martini said that he had found "nothing alarming at this point" but that the investigation would continue.
Commodity prices also remain depressed. More alarming is the prospect that growth will be too slow for companies to generate significant earnings increases.
To be sure, this apparently most fissiparous of relationships retains its curious character: logically alarming, but actually placid.
If, on the other hand, the merchant marine is indeed an arm of the military, shouldn't this be as alarming as the scuttling of every fourth aircraft carrier?
From nuclear waste that defies permanent disposal to an alarming rate of deforestation to groundwater pollution, we are not behaving like stewards.
They found an alarming number of instances in which the private closing agents had failed to reimburse HUD after selling properties or else sent the government the money days, weeks and months late, costing HUD millions in interest.
The findings "show an alarming lack of oversight by the Treasury Department and significant under-reporting of payroll taxes by railroad employers," Rep. Conyers said.
"School children at an alarming rate are being killed by their own school buses," said Rep. Dennis Eckart, D-Ohio, chief sponsor of a bill that would order the federal government to update its safety standards for school buses.

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