| 单词 | phone |
| 释义 | phone (foʊn ) Word forms: phones , phoning , phoned 1. singular noun [oft by NOUN] A1 The phone is an electrical system that you use to talk to someone else in another place, by dialling a number on a piece of equipment and speaking into it. You can buy insurance over the phone. She looked forward to talking to her daughter by phone. Do you have an address and phone number for him? 2. countable noun A1 The phone is the piece of equipment that you use when you dial someone's phone number and talk to them. Two minutes later the phone rang. Doug's 14-year-old son Jamie answered the phone. 3. See also cellular phone, mobile phone 4. singular noun B1 If you say that someone picks up or puts down the phone, you mean that they lift or replace the receiver. She picked up the phone, and began to dial Maurice Campbell's number. Trembling, she put the phone down. It rang again almost immediately. 5. verb A1 When you phone someone, you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone. He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better. [VERB noun] I got more and more angry as I waited for her to phone. [VERB] Synonyms: call, telephone, ring (up) [mainly British], give someone a call 6. on the phone phrase B1+ If you say that someone is on the phone, you mean that they are speaking to someone else by phone. She's always on the phone, wanting to know what I've been up to. 7. on the phone phrase [verb-link PHRASE] If you are on the phone, you have a phone in your home or place of work, so that you can be contacted by phone. [mainly British] The Frosts were not on the phone. Phrasal verbs: phone in 1. phrasal verb B2 If you phone in to a radio or television show, you phone the show in order to give your opinion on a matter that the show has raised. Listeners have been invited to phone in to pick the winner. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you phone in to a place, you make a phone call to that place. He has phoned in to say he is thinking over his options. [VERB PARTICLE to-infinitive] 3. phrasal verb If you phone in an order for something, you place the order by phone. Just phone in your order three or more days prior to departure. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 4. phrase If you phone in sick, you phone your workplace to say that you will not come to work because you are ill. On Monday I was still upset and I phoned in sick to work. phone up phrasal verb A2 When you phone someone up, you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone. Phone him up and tell him to come and have dinner with you one night. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Collocations: phone provider Even if switching bank accounts were as easy as changing phone provider, most of us would not budge. Times, Sunday Times O2, the phone provider, closed its 450 high street stores; ? Times,Sunday Times Depending on the service plan you have with your mobile phone provider certain bandwidth costs may apply. Times, Sunday Times These were then used to transfer them to another phone provider. Times, Sunday Times If you have received a bill that contains dubious charges, call your phone provider, which can give you the phone number for the premiumrate provider. Times, Sunday Times It has also taken up consumer privacy issues, such as identity theft, phone record security, medical record privacy and commercial data mining. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The inquiry used a method known as 'pretexting', where phone records are obtained by impersonating the call-maker. Times, Sunday Times The 34-year-old was found guilty of failure to provide phone records. The Sun That means all her phone records, as well as mine. The Sun Phone records showed that he had been in contact with the couple about the room. Times, Sunday Times His phone rings; he looks down at it briefly and cancels the call. Times,Sunday Times I say, when my phone rings later that afternoon. Times, Sunday Times Then the next minute the phone rings and someone asks if you want to do something else. The Sun Nobody will mind you leaving halfway through if it's not your cup of tea or if your phone rings. Times,Sunday Times The hours are flexible (although it can be awkward if the phone rings while you're cooking). Times, Sunday Times So in the developing world, phone access actually never was predicated on last line phone service. Smithsonian Mag He sits down to chat to diners about different mobile phone service providers for an hour. Times, Sunday Times You can't hand the tricky side of parenting over to a phone service. The Sun After narrowing his likely location through information provided by his mobile phone service provider, police mounted a search involving three helicopters. Times, Sunday Times The telephone was never recovered but police were able to gather data of calls made and received from her mobile phone service provider. Times, Sunday Times Phone the office to complain about the useless showbiz pars in my column. Times, Sunday Times Sometimes he talks with her for an hour at a time on the office phone. Christianity Today We asked members to place one on each home and office phone. Christianity Today It cut off his office phone and raided his home and office. Times, Sunday Times Our office phone was a payphone on the wall outside. Times, Sunday Times Once, he was trying to put a portable phone on the wall and drilled through a load of cables. Times, Sunday Times He held up a portable phone and grinned. Smithsonian Pocketing his portable phone, he turned to me in mild exasperation. Smithsonian However, many of the traditional portable phone chargers featuring lithium batteries are either restricted or banned in aircraft hand luggage. The Sun And that's before blankets, portable phone chargers, coolboxes ... The Sun The watchers also found packaging for two prepaid phone cards. Times, Sunday Times In addition, a prepaid phone has a balance which can be queried at any time, and also topped up periodically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Prepaid phone cards are provided by various telecom companies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A prepaid phone card was found inside the tunnel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When you purchase a prepaid phone card, you are paying for long distance connection time in advance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That done, he creaks into the first of the manoeuvres necessary to retrieve his phone from the bedside table. Times, Sunday Times He was returning to a nightspot to retrieve his phone after drinking with pals, but was not drunk. The Sun I had to stop the car, get out and come in head first to retrieve my phone. Times, Sunday Times You consider abandoning lunch to retrieve your phone. The Sun If you can retrieve the phone, do so. Times, Sunday Times But she would walk into the typing pool and answer a ringing phone herself. Times, Sunday Times Even if his 'disproportionate and improper' conduct had been a justified reaction to the disruption of his courtroom, 'his extreme response was far more disruptive than a ringing phone'. Times, Sunday Times Later outside, a conversation or a ringing phone seemed deafening. Times, Sunday Times The noise produced by the running water gives a background from which the brain perceives there to be patterned sound of a ringing phone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ringing phone woke him the next morning, and he was famous. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You're a long way from civilisation - they'll give you a satellite phone for emergencies. Times, Sunday Times Their special teddies were always carefully guarded, gripped fiercely in a dedicated bag, accompanied at all times by the malaria tablets and the satellite phone. Times, Sunday Times He left without his usual survival kit (known as a 'go bag'), containing a satellite phone, food and clothes. Times, Sunday Times They are given two days' worth of survival training, a few tools, some basic fishing equipment and an emergency satellite phone. Times, Sunday Times They did not have enough ammunition or a satellite phone to summon help. Times, Sunday Times The person on the line puts her on speaker phone. Times, Sunday Times The temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees as the boss's voice came on the speaker phone. Times, Sunday Times Eventually somebody presses a button and a voice comes out on a speaker phone. Times, Sunday Times There's a hands-free speaker phone. Times, Sunday Times Put it on speaker phone. Christianity Today Although he has never liked to talk on the phone, he has always liked to write letters. The Times Literary Supplement We talk on the phone first thing every morning and last thing at night. Times, Sunday Times We e-mail, talk on the phone and, ironically, have to leave the country to see each other. Times, Sunday Times A built-in mic means you can even use the head-phones to talk on your phone. The Sun We message and talk on the phone all the time, and we get on so well. The Sun Some systems will then assume that you don't have a touch-tone phone and will put you straight through to a live operator. Times, Sunday Times Phone voters need to call from a touch-tone phone. The Sun If you have a touch-tone phone, press 1 for big widgets, 2 for small widgets, or 3 for our inter-office phone directory. canada.com You need a touch-tone phone with star and hash buttons. The Sun In 1988, the company introduced the first quote and order entry system via the touch-tone phone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Oh, and unplug your phone charger when not in use. Times, Sunday Times Cancel your plans and unplug the phone. Times, Sunday Times Setting the alarm, playing games, changing songs, taking pictures and plugging and unplugging the phone all add to the number of 'views'. Times, Sunday Times She unplugs the phone and fax machine and plants a phony fax sheet clarifying that her partner would not arrive until that night or early the following morning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has colour head-up display, hands-free parking, wireless phone charging, adaptive control (it will slow down and speed up with traffic) and emergency braking. The Sun Most wireless phone chargers require the handset to be placed on top of a charging pad. Times, Sunday Times Every door has a wireless phone charger and there are personal mini screens in the back of all the headrests. The Sun They advertise that wireless phone companies are villains. Globe and Mail At first, she was resistant when asked to retire her wireless phone for two days. Globe and Mail Translations: Chinese: 电话, 打电话 Japanese: 電話, 電話をかける |
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