单词wake-up call
n.: 催醒电话；叫早电话；让人警醒的事
网络: 叫醒电话；叫醒服务；唤醒服务
催醒电话；叫早电话:
a telephone call that you arrange to be made to you at a particular time, for example in a hotel, in order to wake you up
让人警醒的事:
an event that makes people realize that there is a problem that they need to do sth about
警钟〔譬喻用法〕
起床叫醒服务
n.reveillebugle 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。