phone
n
1 telephone 電話: tell sb sth/order sth over the phone, ie instead of writing 用電話把某事告訴某人[訂購某物]
The phone is ringing. 電話鈴響了. communicating by phone 通電話
[attrib 作定語]
make a phone call 打電話.
2 (idm 習語) (be) on the `phone
(a) (be) talking on the phone 用電話交談; 在通話
You can't see her now she's on the phone. 你現在不能見她--她正在打電話.
They've been on the phone for an hour. 他們已通話一小時了.
(b) (of a person, business, etc) having a telephone (指人或公司等)有電話
Are you on the phone yet? 你安電話了嗎? phone, v
1 [I, Ip, Tn, Tn.p]
~ (sb) (up) telephone (sb) 給(某人)打電話
Did anybody phone? 有人打電話來嗎?
I'll phone them up now. 我現在給他們打電話.
2 (phr v) phone in telephone (esp one's place of work) 打電話(尤指打至自己的工作處)
phone in sick, ie telephone to say one is absent from work because of illness 打電話請病假.
phone n (linguistics 語言) single sound (vowel or consonant) in speech 音子; 音素.