tocsin

noun

1. 警钟；警戒信号
   a warning bell or signal

1. The government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; the night was almost upon them, and the saint-merry tocsin began to make itself heard.
   政府手里有着军队，却还在犹豫不决，天快黑了，人们开始听到圣美里的警钟。
2. In the midst of all these convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the hour is God.
   在这一片狂敲猛打的钟声和喧腾哗乱的人声中，圣保罗教堂的时钟庄严舒缓地敲着十一点，警钟是人的声音，时钟是上帝的声音。
3. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds.
   从你们的队列里走出很多将领在战争警报响起时掌握着国家的命运。
4. A tocsin ringing from church steeples;
   教堂塔尖上传来的警钟声；
5. The tocsin rang impatiently, but other help there was none.
   警钟紧急地敲着，却没有别的救援出现。
6. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Saint-Merry.
   在那里，人们只听到一种仅有的声音枣一种和临终时的喘息一样使人听了为之心碎，和凶恶的诟骂一样使人听了为之心悸的声音枣圣美里的警钟声。
7. Glanced down from behind his chimneys at the darkening faces by the fountain below, and sent word to the sacristan who kept the keys of the church, that there might be need to ring the tocsin by-and-by.
   他又躲在烟囱后偷看屋下泉水边黑暗中的面孔，同时通知了掌管教堂钥匙的圣器保管员，说不定过一会儿需要敲钟。
8. The tocsin we shall sound is not the alarm signal of danger, it orders the charge on the enemies of France.
   我们不敲报险的警钟而吹响向法兰西的敌人冲锋的军号。
9. In recent years there were a series of auditing cases, which sounded the tocsin for the auditor of our country.
   尤其是近些年来，一系列审计案件的接踵而至，更为我国的注册会计师敲响了警钟。
10. The embezzlement case of Shanghai social protecting capital and Guangzhou annuity has sounded the tocsin to us, which is caused by the weakness of the restriction and supervision system.
    上海社保资金和广州养老金被挪用案给我们敲响了警钟，是制衡和监督机制弱化导致的。

noun

1. a bell used to sound an alarm

   Synonym:    warning bell

2. the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)

   Synonym:    alarm bell