英和和英

名詞

wake-up call (複数形 wake-up calls)

1. A telephone call to awaken someone at a certain time, especially one requested by the person while staying at a hotel.

   She requested a five a.m. wake-up call from the front desk.

2. (figuratively) An alert, reminder, or call to action caused by a dramatic event.

   The recent deaths should serve as a wake-up call to others at risk.

   • 1997 December 6, William Jefferson Clinton, Presidential Radio Address:

     Youth violence represents an insistent, angry wake-up call to every parent, every teacher, every religious leader, every student.

   • 2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 44:

     "I will never forget the seven people who lost their lives and those who were injured, which was a real wake-up call to those of us involved in public transport and operating tram networks around the world. […] ."

   • 2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.

参考

• heads-up
• reality check
• rude awakening
• wake word