The thieves must have deliberately triggered the alarm and hidden inside the house.

那些小偷一定是故意触发了报警器，然后藏在屋子里。

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Yet, more than any of these, it was the seemingly inexorable rise of sub-prime credit that should have triggered the alarm.

然而，不仅如此，早该触发警报的次贷似乎一直在稳步上升。

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Finally, if an interval returned a value such that both the Warning and Alarm thresholds were breached, only the Alarm threshold actions would be triggered.

最后，如果间隔返回的值同时满足Warning和Alarm报警的阈值，那么只会触发alarm阈值的行为。

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If somebody does, an alarm is triggered, as a burglar might set off an alarm breaking into a house at night.

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The international departures area of the airport was evacuated after a fire alarm was triggered in February 2012.

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They escaped before private guards arrived, 10 minutes after an alarm was triggered, and the whereabouts of the painting have been a mystery ever since.

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