From two blocks over he could hear the thin wail.

他从两条街以外的地方就能听到那微弱的哭泣声。

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Even today, over six decades later, just hearing that long wail of the warning siren on old newsreels and films gives me that same cold knot of fear in the pit of my stomach which I always felt all those years ago.

BBC: Stanley Ross remembers the Blitz