alarm call
alarm call — 名詞
1. A service that wakes someone up by ringing their phone at a pre-arranged time, t
晨喚電話
飯店或總機提供的叫醒服務
A service that wakes someone up by ringing their phone at a pre-arranged time, typically offered by a hotel reception or a telephone operator.
The hotel receptionist offered to give me an alarm call at six in the morning.
飯店櫃檯人員表示可以在早上六點打電話叫我起床。
collocation: give [sb] an alarm call
Linnea requested an alarm call for 5 a.m. to avoid missing her flight to Seoul.
Linnea 要求早上五點的晨喚電話,以免錯過飛往首爾的航班。
collocation: request an alarm call
This hotel still uses human operators to make alarm calls rather than an automated system.
這間飯店仍由專人負責晨喚電話,而非使用自動化系統。
Diego set an alarm call with the front desk before going to bed.
Diego 睡前跟櫃檯預約了晨喚電話。
- wake-up call
more general use; can refer to any call that wakes you, not just one from a hotel
- morning call
common in East Asian hotel contexts, but less used in other regions