11:43 Feb 17, 2020 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | |||||||
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| Selected response from: neilmac Spain Local time: 01:38 | ||||||
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4 +4 | just as the siren went off |
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just as the siren went off Explanation: European trains have a wailing siren sound to alert passengers the doors are closing etc. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 mins (2020-02-17 12:02:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn#Noise_from_train_ho... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 mins (2020-02-17 12:07:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I'm no expert, but "whistle" sounds rather old-fashioned to me, like from the steam engine era. In general they call them horns, although some of them are definitely very siren-like. https://www.zedge.net/find/ringtones/train horn -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 25 mins (2020-02-17 12:09:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I'm not sure where I've heard it, it may have been on the Barcelona metro, but it's definitely a siren, sounds like someone treading on a bag of cats :-) |
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