he eats and sleeps at the firehouse because the fire fighters have to be ready to answer an alarm at any time.Nancy is a typist in Henry’s office.She works from 9 o’clock in the morning to 5 o’clock in the afternoon.She works five days a week from Monday through Friday.Her job...
an alarm button set into the wall beside the door 嵌在门边墙里的警报器按钮 n Grammar Set is usually passive in this meaning. 3 story 故事 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] if a film, play, story etc is set in a particular place or period, the action takes place...
set the alarm• Also, tell the security guard the office is empty so he can set the alarm.• I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.• He covered her with a blanket and set the alarm clock to ring in an hour, wrapping ...
Thatcher closed mines mainly for economic reasons, but she did rather later fall for the climate alarmism religion/con trick. One of several mistakes she made – Closing many Grammar schools, appointing John Major as chancellor, failing to sort out the Communist NHS, burying us further into the...
I'm always nervous before a trip and I was up until after one o'clock that morning, cleaning, packing and printing out maps. I got a couple hours sleep before the 4:00am alarm and then the 5:00am airport shuttle. The airport was dark and almost deserted. Too dark to take any real...
American politics was dysfunctional, and certainly begging for satire, but the news didn’t cause meaningful alarm among liberal HBO viewers. Most of the comedy in Veep’s early seasons was rooted in workplace pettiness that rang true inside the Beltway but wasn’t necessarily a comment on any...