Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people's ability to report a fire.
移除盒子将减少恶作剧电话的数量,同时也不会对人们报告火灾的能力造成影响。
The vast majority of false fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street corners.
绝大多数火灾误报都是用街角的消防报警箱匿名拨打的恶作剧电话。
No way was I going to let him pull a prank—ruining someone's Valentine's Day.
我绝不能让他搞恶作剧,毁了别人的情人节。
A prank? Is this communication?
恶作剧?这也算是交流?
You may laugh at a prank on April Fools' Day.
你可能会因为愚人节的一个恶作剧而发笑。
The nooses are no prank. We were lynched, we were murdered.
我们曾被这样的套索处以私刑,我们曾被这样的套索谋杀。
And, she added, one brother calls her at 5 a.m. as a prank.
她补充道她的一位兄弟恶作剧的在凌晨五点给她打电话。
Later on, we found out that it was one of our friends playing a prank on us.
后来我们才发现原来那是我们同去的一个朋友在和我们开玩笑呢。
Up until this point, I had assumed it was some youths playing a prank with me.
直到这之前,我一直以为是某些少年在跟我搞恶作剧。
Leave cryptic notes warning someone of an impending prank then do nothing all day.
给别人留一个当心恶作剧的便条,却什么也不做。
Comments: While this prank isn't quite notorious, it's brilliant in its simplicity.
点评:尽管这个恶作剧并不是太臭名昭著,它的聪明之处在于操作简单。
Hiding our teacher's bike from her was a great prank. She was looking for it for hours!
把我们的老师的自行车藏起来是一个很棒的恶作剧,她找了好几个小时。
Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, "April Fool!"
不管是什么恶作剧,实施恶作剧的那个人一般以向被整蛊的人喊出“愚人节快乐”来结束恶作剧。
The theft may have been a prank or targeted deliberately for sale to a collector, police said.
警方透露,窃贼的作案动机可能是恶作剧,或者专为特定的某一名收藏家行窃。
All because some snot-nosed kid had broken into their mail server and pulled a childish prank.
所有这些都只因为一个小屁孩入侵了他们的邮件服务器并开了一个幼稚的玩笑。
He didn't know why he'd done it, but the look in her eyes made him realize how cruel his prank was.
他不明白自己为什么要这样做,但她的眼神让他意识到,他的恶作剧有多么残酷。
The image has created a buzz on technology blogs, but some users have speculated that it may be a prank.
这张照片在科技博客网站上引发大范围争议,一些用户推测这可能是一个恶作剧。
He thought the cheering was just a prank, and didn't believe he'd made the shot until he saw the replay.
教练听到欢呼以为是队员们在开玩笑,直至他开会录像重播,才相信自己投进球了。
But just because an April Fool's prank might be frowned upon, it doesn't mean you can't joke around while at work.
尽管愚人节恶作剧可能会让人不悦,但这并不意味着不能和同事开玩笑。
What looked legit at first (if you had you T.V. on mute you’d think as much) might actually be a prank on viewers.
节目刚开始看起来一切正常(你要是把电视静音了你会一直认为还挺正常的),其实这都是给观众安排好的恶作剧。
They'd pick up the phone line and yell at prank callers. They'd show up at schools and tell some kids to back off.
过去,父亲能够对付骚扰她女儿的那些家伙,他们会拿起电话叫那些打电话来恶作剧的人小心点,他们会出现在学校让那些家伙离他们女儿远点。
Comments: Having never seen an iceberg in real life, NewsFeed can't be certain that we wouldn't have fallen for this prank.
点评:要不是没有在现实生活中看见过冰山,我们确信不会掉进这个恶作剧的陷阱。
They decided to tell me it was a prank after I quit my job, dumped my girlfriend, and started preparing my house to be sold.
他们决定告诉我这是个恶作剧,却是在我辞了工作,蹬了女友并开始准备卖房之后才说。
In the 1970's streaking was a popular prank, a display of courage, and a general right of passage for college freshmen.
在19世纪70年代,裸奔是一项很流行的玩笑,一种勇气的表现,大学新生也通常做此声明。
She says they tried to warn school officials - and then bam: the prank caller beat up Billy in the bathroom of McNair Middle school.
她说他们试过告诉学校的管理人员——然后一切突然发生:一个恶作剧电话员在McNair中学的浴室里把billy揍了一顿。
New cast member Bryce Dallas Howard tried to play a prank on the crew during one stunt, but she didn't count on Pattinson's awkwardness.
在一次特技表演当中,新成员布莱斯·达拉斯·霍华德(Bryce Dallas Howard)想要开开同事的玩笑,但她万万没有预料到帕丁森是如此“老实巴交”。
New cast member Bryce Dallas Howard tried to play a prank on the crew during one stunt, but she didn't count on Pattinson's awkwardness.
在一次特技表演当中,新成员布莱斯·达拉斯·霍华德(Bryce Dallas Howard)想要开开同事的玩笑,但她万万没有预料到帕丁森是如此“老实巴交”。
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