3give somebody a bellTCTBritish EnglishBrE spoken to telephone someone 给某人打电话
I must give Vicky a bell later.
我过一会儿必须给维基打个电话。
Examples from the Corpus
give somebody a bell• As this playercounts aloud from one to ten, the other children are given a bell.• If not, maybe you could give Diana Russell a bell?• Just give me a bell as to when and where you want him.• Write to me at the address just inside the back cover or give me a bell on.
nCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a hollow metal object like a cup with a piece of metal hanging inside it, that makes a ringing noise when it moves or you shake it
verbs
a bell rings
I could hear the church bells ringing in the distance.
ring a bell
He was ringing a big brass bell.
a bell rings out (=it rings loudly)
The bells rang out to celebrate the end of the war.
a bell sounds
Somewhere across the valley a bell sounded.
a bell chimes (=it rings a certain number of times, in order to tell you the time of day)
The bells began to chime, calling people to church.
a bell tolls (=it slowly rings with a long low sound, when someone has died)
The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
a bell tinkles (=a small bell rings with a gentle high sound)
We were sleeping under the stars, camel bells tinkling in a cool breeze.
NOUN + bell
a church bell
She woke on Sunday morning to the sound of church bells.
wedding bells (=rung when people marry in a church)
Mark and Bridget seem very happy and we expect to hear wedding bells soon.
phrases
a peal of bells (=the sound of bells being rung several times)
ring/press the bell• With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposingportals of Mon Ré, and rang the bell.• I went right up the front walk, mounted the porchsteps and rang the bell, then rang it again.• The excitement of Cynthia's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse.• I rang the bell again, heard steps, and then the door was opened by Mrs Ahronson!• I rang the bell and heard steps on a hardwoodfloor.• You couldn't ring the bell or they would go mad.• The wholeplasticnotion of a popstar begins to ring the bells of truth.