| 词汇 | alarm |
| 词源 | alarm; to arms. Aux armes! Aux armes! was the Old French military call when a sentry spotted the enemy coming. This be- came the English At arms! At arms! and finally the more recent To arms! To arms! Though these were all signals indicating danger, it was, strangely enough, the Italian expression all’ arme! meaning the same thing, that passed into English as al- larme and became the English word alarm, “a warning.” |
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