Yet why should he have been? He had been right to raise the alarm.

不过，他为什么要被罚款呢？他率先拉响疫情警报，何罪之有？

Quite a few of them took to Twitter to raise the alarm and post pictures and videos of the blazing birds.

不少人在推特上发出警报，并上传了照片和视频。

THE idea that plants have developed a subterranean internet, which they use to raise the alarm when danger threatens, sounds more like the science-fiction of James Cameron's film “Avatar” than any sort of science fact.

植物已经构建起了一整套地下网络，当危险逼近时，它们便借此向同类发出警报：这听起来怎么都不像是科学事实，而更像是詹姆斯·卡梅隆科幻电影“阿凡达”里面的情节。

The authorities in Kenya cannot hide their embarrassment following revelations that some of the very people who were supposed to raise the alarm and protect public and private property were involved in the looting that followed the destructive fire.

那次大火发生后，肯尼亚当局有些工作人员原本应该报警，并保护抢劫案中涉及的公共和私人财产，而事实曝光后，肯尼亚当局难以掩饰尴尬处境。