We received a call for help over the ship’s radio.
我们通过船上的无线电收到一个求救呼叫。
b)[uncountableU]TCB when messages are sent or received in this way 无线电通信
by radio
We should be able to reach them by radio.
我们应该能够通过无线电联系到他们。
We’ve lost radio contact with the plane.
我们和这架飞机失去了无线电联络。
nCOLLOCATIONS
verbs
listen to the radio
She was sitting up in bed, listening to the radio.
hear something on the radio
I heard on the radio that the weather was going to get warmer.
turn/switch the radio on
Dad switched on the radio for the eight-thirty news.
turn/switch the radio off
You can turn the radio off, darling, we're not listening to it.
turn the radio down/up (=make it quieter or louder)
Can you turn your radio down a bit?
tune a radio to a station (=make it receive broadcasts from a particular station)
The radio was tuned to a country-music station.
adjectives
local radio
Jobs may be advertised in local newspapers or on local radio.
national radio
He even went on national radio to defend himself and his players.
state radio (=controlled by the government of a country)
In a message read on state radio and television, the president called for calm.
radio + NOUN
a radio programme/show
It's my favourite radio programme.
a radio station (=an organization that broadcasts radio programmes)
There are currently nearly 50 commercial radio stations.
a radio broadcast
All radio broadcasts continue to be closely monitored by the government.
nGrammar
You listen to the radio:
I often listen to the radio in my car.
✗Don’t say: listen to radio
You say that someone or something is on the radio:
My mother heard the news on the radio.
✗Don’t say: on radio
Examples from the Corpus
radio• Do you have a radio in your car?• However, there are some occasions when sending a photograph to a radiostation is not such a bad idea.• a radiopersonality• We had to fight to make our way through as rifles, packs and radioaerialssnagged on bushes and branches.• The ginpalaces are out, polishedbrass, blaringradios and peakedhats, and they don't care.• Maxwell, host of a weekendgospelhour on a Compton radio station, was jubilant.• Madden has a dailyradio show on KSFO.• The story was written specially for radio.• We've lost radiocontact.• The 15-minuteradioprogram is wonderfully old-fashioned.• I'm going to buy a new radio for the car.• We encourage more use of radio in the public interest.• Rush Limbaugh is one of the biggest names in talk radio.• Here you simply ensure that the mechanicallinkage will give more than sufficient control and then adjust the radiotransmitter in suit.• I've often heard that song on the radio, but I can't think what it's called.• In the evening I usually watchTV or listen to the radio.• They also found a piece of paper with the radiofrequencies used by police locally and nationally, said Mr Cornwall.• Unlikeradio, the anchor / readers do not have to be in eye contact with the control room.• Can you turn your radio down a little bit?
turn/switch the radio on/off• I'd put a tape on and turn the radio off.• Erch switched the radio off and resumed his washing and polishing.• He switched the radio on and they drifted through the night together, flying over the miles to London.• He switched the radio on, just for the company of voices.• I couldn't, even with my mistress, be seen reading their newspapers or turn the radio on.• When taking part in a PHONE-IN programme, turn the radio off.• Tom turned the radio on to a station that played dance music.