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单词 siren
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siren/ʹsierən/ noun

an electrically operated device for producing a penetrating warning sound

an ambulance siren

an apparatus producing musical tones by the rapid interruption of a current of air, steam, etc by a perforated rotating disc

(often Siren) in Greek mythology, any of a group of women or winged creatures that lured sailors to destruction by their singing

a dangerously alluring or seductive woman; a temptress

any of a genus of eel-shaped amphibians with small forelimbs but no hind limbs and with external gills as well as lungs: genus Siren

[Middle English via French from Latin Sirena, fem of Siren, from Greek Seirēn]
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