wake-up call

"It has certainly been a wake-up call to equity at the point of entry. "

“这当然是你初入职场时在公平方面得到的一记警钟”。

Maybe one of these days I'll tell you how I got my wake-up call, it is an interesting story.

可能这些天的某一天我将告诉你我是如何觉醒的，那是一个有趣的故事。

Harry: Last night, I discovered something wonderful. It was a wake-up call, a way to look at myself and what I really want out of life.

哈利：昨天晚上，我发现一些奇妙的事情。有人敲响了警钟，这是一种审视自己，我真想要的生活。

He says it was a shock, and a wake-up call, when the only work he could find was a low-paying restaurant job.

他说，当他唯一能找到的工作只是拿低薪在餐馆打工时，他震惊了，开始清醒了。

The inability to watch videos or download podcasts and music was a bit of a wake-up call about how high my expectations have risen.

我们不能观看视频，无法下载语音文件和各种音乐，不过这倒像是一个小闹铃，它提醒我，自己曾对网络有著多么高的期望。

Next morning, when she did not answer a wake-up call, her mother went to the apartment and found her daughter battered and bloodied.

第二天早晨，当她没有回应清晨唤醒电话后，她的母亲去了公寓，并发现她的女儿被殴打得满身血迹。

England seems to be suffering from a deadly case of deja vu, or perhaps, a wake up call.

英格兰似乎正在经受着曾经的切肤之痛，或者这也许是一种唤醒的召唤。

"We have to see this as a wake-up call, " Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an interview on Monday.

“我们不得不将这件事情当作叫醒电话，”周一，教育部长阿恩·邓肯在访谈中说。

This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?

这座小镇真是让人有点兴奋，你不觉得吗？

This episode is a wake-up call to any company perceived to be hostage to one person alone. Even if it is true.

对于那些在人们眼里完全依托于一个人——即使这是真实情况——的公司来说，这件事不啻一记警钟。

To me, it's something of a wake-up-call to realise that a couple who make $75, 000 each are in the top 5% of American households.

对我来说，这提醒我意识到一对夫妇，当双方都挣到$75,000时才会进入到收入前5%的家庭。

Strikes over the last 2 months have been a wake-up call for many foreign companies that depend on China's low costs to compete overseas.

近两个月来的罢工事件为多家外企敲醒了警钟：不能再尽情享受中国低廉的人力成本带来的海外竞争优势。

"If letters are sent with both 'Haringey' and 'children' in the same sentence, then that should have been a real wake-up call. "

“如果那些信件以及‘哈林盖’和‘孩子们’同时在判决书中出现，应该说那才是一个真正的唤醒服务。”

That seems to me to be a huge wake up call for on-line travel companies.

对我来说，这相当于为在线旅游企业敲响了警钟。

If the failure in Copenhagen can act as a wake-up call to the biodiversity community, that itself will have been a positive achievement.

如果哥本哈根的失败能够起到唤醒生物多样性界的作用，那么它本身就是一项积极的成就。

It has been a real wake up call for HIV researchers all over.

这确实是对所有艾滋病研究者的清凉剂。

"It was a real wake-up call to us, " he said.

“这给我们敲了一个警钟。”

There has been a range of speculation about the nature of the threat posed by the botnet, from a wake-up call to a devastating attack.

关于僵尸网络构成的威胁有着广泛的投机，从唤醒命令直至破坏性的攻击。

"This should be a wake-up call to parents: you and your kids want the exact same thing. What's missing are the proper tools, " Irwin added.

欧文还说：“这项调查给父母们提了个醒：你和你的孩子想要的是完全相同的东西，你所缺乏的只是合适的方式而已。”

Let us hope that this summer of extremes is a last-minute wake-up call to policy makers, the corporate world, and citizens alike.

我们要相信，今年夏天的极端气候事件是在最后关头向决策者、全世界以及全体公民敲响的警钟。