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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While putting on a brave face, Google has triggered alarm bells for the growing number of handset and tablet manufacturers--like HTC, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson--that rely on Android to power their devices.

FORBES: The Tech Trade

"The rise in inflation has triggered alarm inside the government as Rousseff's voters are very sensitive to employment and price, " says Ricardo Ismael, Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

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The passenger triggered an alarm during routine airport screening but refused to complete the screening process in order to resolve the issue.

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