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单词 to ring back
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to ring back
d. transitive and intransitive. to ring back: to make a telephone call to (a person) in response to one received from that person; (also) to make a call (to) on the same subject as an earlier one.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate with by telephone [verb (transitive)] > in reply
to ring back1891
1891 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 13 Nov. 269/3 Then to ring back, all that has to be done is for the key to be depressed that rings the other station.
1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand vi. 67 Telephonic communication between firingpoint and butts is now established. That is to say, whenever Mr Cockerell rings the bell some one in the butts courteously rings back.
1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air iii. 57 I hung up. ‘Pearce is going to ring you back,’ I said.
1944 H. McCloy Panic 118 This is Jim, testing. I'm going to hang up and then I want you to ring me back.
1972 M. Drabble Needle's Eye 276 After another ten minutes, he rang back and said that all the barristers in the relevant Chambers seemed to be out.
1977 W. Marshall Thin Air i. 11 He said quickly, ‘I'll ring you back.’
1998 R. M. Brown Dark Night, Wild Sea 13 He rang back immediately. No answer. He rang back again two minutes later.
2005 J. Smith P.I. on Hot Tin Roof (2006) 285 She hung up, but Talba rang her back.
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