Warn

(verb.) notify, usually in advance; 'I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions'.

(verb.) ask to go away; 'The old man warned the children off his property'.

(verb.) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; 'The director warned him that he might be fired'; 'The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking'.

(verb.) admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; 'I warned him not to go too far'; 'I warn you against false assumptions'; 'She warned him to be quiet'.

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• We are going for Moore's sake--to see if we can be of use to him, to make an effort to warn him of what is coming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At last she saw Gudrun coming, and she ran downstairs to warn her father and Gerald. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I have tried to warn you of this; now, have I not? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Hows'ever, it warn't paid, and so they cuts the water off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I would almost as soon believe that the cat curls the end of its tail when preparing to spring, in order to warn the doomed mouse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I warn you that they are very incomplete. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• One look at my aunt's face (knowing what I knew) was enough to warn me of the dreadful truth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Colonel O'Dowd, of the --th regiment, one of those occupying in Paris, warned Lieutenant Spooney of that corps. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The only independent one among them, he warned her that she was doing too much for this man, and was placing herself too unreservedly in his power. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Instead her eyes warned me to beware the sleeping figures that surrounded her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Warned of a visitor by the tinkling bell at the shop-door, Mrs Plornish came out of Happy Cottage to see who it might be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He has warned us twice, replied Justinian, as he walked out into the court with the poet; once by the earthquake, again by the springs. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The first of my scattered senses that came back was the sense that warned me to sacrifice anything rather than make an enemy of him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My wealthy relative's cheque--henceforth, the incubus of my existence--warns me that I have not done with this record of violence yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Every religion that is worth the name, every philosophy, warns us to lose ourselves in something greater than ourselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He dreaded to hear that something had been said to Mary--he felt as if he were listening to a threat rather than a warning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The county police ought to make something of that, said he; why, it is surely obvious that-- But I held up a warning finger. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Do you mean, Sir Percival, that I am to dismiss the indoor servants under my charge without the usual month's warning? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It seemed to me that I had but closed my eyes when I felt her hand upon my shoulder and heard her soft voice warning me of a new danger. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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