1the telephoneTCTTELEPHONEthe system of communication that you use to have a conversation with someone in another place 电话SYN phone
by telephone
Reservations can be made by telephone.
可以电话预订。
on the telephone
I’ve never met him, but I’ve spoken to him on the telephone.
我从来没见过他,但我和他通过电话。
over the telephone
I read the names out to him over the telephone.
我在电话里把名字读给他听。
down the telephoneBritish EnglishBrE
He shouted at me down the telephone.
他在电话里对我大喊大叫。
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In everyday English, people usually say phone rather than telephone: 在日常英语中,人们一般说 phone,而不说telephone
She’s been on the phone all evening.
她打了一整晚电话。
Examples from the Corpus
down the telephone• The days when he could demand the detail of everything he owned, barkingdown the telephone, have faded.• I may have crieddown the telephone, but Mme Dragon wouldn't unbend.• She hunteddown the telephone number through directoryenquiries and then rang.• The latest news down the telephone line is that Madonna has just bought one.• Melissa murmured some banalphrases of encouragement and put down the telephone with a feeling of desolation.• Ron had just put down the telephone.• He wanted to rage and swear, to shoutdown the telephone and fire off angrymemoranda.• It is a question of personality, or more precisely how this is projected in the voice down the telephonewires.
2[countableC]TCTTELEPHONE the piece of equipment that you use when you are talking to someone by telephone 电话机SYN phone
The telephone rang just as I was leaving.
我正要走,电话铃响了。
She picked up the telephone and dialled a number.
她拿起电话,拨了个号码。
I said goodbye and put down the telephone.
我说了声再见就放下了电话。
3be on the telephone
a)TCTTELEPHONEto be talking to someone, using the telephone 正在打电话
I was on the telephone when he came in.
他进来时我正在打电话。
b)TCTto have a telephone in your home, office etc 〔家里、办公室里等〕有电话
Examples from the Corpus
be on the telephone• From 6am Brownis on the telephone.• The Sheikharrivedwhile the doctorwas on the telephone to the hospital.• I told him who I was on the telephone.• She loves to be on the telephone.• She must not ask who was on the telephone.
COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2
verbs
a telephone rings 电话铃响
The telephone rang, but Tom didn’t answer it.
电话铃响了,但汤姆没接。
answer the telephone 接电话
When I called the house, Mike answered the telephone.
我打电话到家里,迈克接的。
talk on the telephone 打电话
He was talking on the telephone when the doorbell rang.
门铃响时,他正在打电话。
use the telephone 用电话
May I use your telephone?
我可以用一下你的电话吗?
pick up the telephone 拿起电话
nAs soon as she got home, she picked up the telephone and dialled his number.
put down the telephone 放下电话
nBefore he could respond, she’d put down the telephone.
call somebody on the telephone 打电话给某人
nHer son doesn’t even call her on the telephone.
telephone + NOUN
a telephone call 电话
She got a telephone call from Joe last night.
昨晚她接到乔的电话。
a telephone conversation 电话交谈
We had a long telephone conversation.
我们在电话里谈了很长时间。
a telephone line 电话线
nThey didn’t even have a telephone line.
COMMON ERRORSDon’t say ‘get/have a telephone from somebody’. Say get/have a telephone call from somebody.
不要说 ‘get/have a telephone from somebody’。而要说 get/have a telephone call from somebody。
put down the telephone• Melissa murmured some banalphrases of encouragement and put down the telephone with a feeling of desolation.• Ron had just put down the telephone.
telephone• For details of your nearesttouristofficetelephone 4127.• He would have to telephone around and see if anyone else had any titbits to add to the mystery.• About five o'clock, a woman telephoned Bernstein.• Write or telephone for more information.• He had tried to telephone his wife once, but without success: the line was engaged.• Advertisements are placed in the press, and potential purchasers are invited to telephone or fill in a coupon for further details.• At 4:45 a.m., neighbors telephoned police to report a man firing shots.• I telephoned Sophie and arranged to have dinner with her the following night.• Police take violators to a special detentioncenter and telephone their homes.• Mr Dodd telephoned this morning.• He wanted me to telephone you at once and ask you to come to Danzig.