单词
phone
英 [f??n]
美[fon]
基本信息
- n. 电话；耳机，听筒
- vt. 打电话
- vi. 打电话
- n. (Phone)人名；(老、缅)蓬
CET4TEM4考研CET6中高频词基本词汇
词态变化
复数:?phones;第三人称单数:?phones;过去式:?phoned;过去分词:?phoned;现在分词:?phoning;
助记提示
1. iPhone (苹果手机) => phone.
中文词源
phone 电话
缩写自telephone.
英文词源
- 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.)).
双语例句
- 1. I took the phone, and she went discreetly into the living room.
- 我拿起了电话，她知趣地进了客厅。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Rather taken aback by such forwardness, I slammed down the phone.
- 如此无礼的言语让我火冒三丈，我砰的一下把电话挂了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Fraud squad officers had bugged the phone and were ready to pounce.
- 反诈骗小组的警员们已在电话上安装了窃听器，并随时准备突击。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. I answered the phone and this voice went, "Hello? Is that Alison?"
- 我拿起电话，就听到这个声音：“喂？是艾利森吗？”
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Simon finished dialing and clamped the phone to his ear.
- 西蒙拨完号，把听筒贴在耳边。
来自柯林斯例句
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