phone

• n. 電話；耳機，聽筒
• vt. 打電話
• vi. 打電話
• n. (Phone)人名；(老、緬)蓬

縮寫自telephone.

phone

phone: [20] Phone is of course short for telephone [19], a compound word formed from Greek tēle- ‘far off’ and phōné ‘voice, sound’ (a descendant of the Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’, and related to English fable, fame, fate, etc). Other English words derived from or based on phōné include gramophone, megaphone [19], microphone, phonetic [19], phonology [18], saxophone, and xylophone.
=> fable, fame, fate

phone (n.1)

1884, shortening of telephone (n.). Phone book first recorded 1925; phone booth 1927; phone bill 1901.

phone (v.)

1884, from phone (n.). Related: Phoned; phoning.

phone (n.2)

"elementary sound of a spoken language," 1866, from Greek phone "sound, voice," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).

1. I took the phone, and she went discreetly into the living room.

我拿起了電話，她知趣地進了客廳。

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2. Rather taken aback by such forwardness, I slammed down the phone.

如此無禮的言語讓我火冒三丈，我砰的一下把電話掛了。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Fraud squad officers had bugged the phone and were ready to pounce.

反詐騙小組的警員們已在電話上安裝了竊聽器，並隨時準備突擊。

來自柯林斯例句

4. I answered the phone and this voice went, "Hello? Is that Alison?"

我拿起電話，就聽到這個聲音：“喂？是艾利森嗎？”

來自柯林斯例句

5. Simon finished dialing and clamped the phone to his ear.

西蒙撥完號，把聽筒貼在耳邊。

來自柯林斯例句