And it was the wake up call I needed to be more in the moment and actually listen to my son when he's talking, and treat him like he's the important person in my life that he is.

这次觉醒让我明白了，我儿子说话的时候，我要仔细听，要以“他是我非常重要的人”的方式待他，因为他本来就是。

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He urged her to treat the arrest as a wake-up call.

他力劝她把这次拘捕当作一次警钟。

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These riots should be a wake-up call for the government.

这些暴乱该为政府敲响警钟了。

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He says the financial crisis should be seen as a wake-up call to change systems and ways of thinking, and to re-establish trust.

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It kind of was a wake up call in Germany because they were watching with amusement the subprime crisis in the United States and here it was causing losses to the German Government.

这次危机震醒了德国,当初德国还把,美国次贷危机当笑话看,德国政府付出了沉重的代价

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For example, you could request a wake-up call in the morning.

比如你想要早晨的叫醒服务。

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Sadly as much as I would like to think that the measures that the government and banks have implemented will help our economy, I believe that a recession is unavoidable as the wake up call has been profound.

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The strong arm passage of ObamaCare may have been the wake up call that those in power think it in their power to mandate the purchase of a commercial product, but evidence of their imperial ambitions now pervades our lives.

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The big wake up call by the FRB may be just months away.

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