首页英语词典phonephone的意思

phone

英 [fəʊn] 美[fon]

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近义词telephone pager phone receiver extension headphone

n. 电话；耳机，听筒
vt. 打电话
vi. 打电话
n. (Phone)人名；(老、缅)蓬

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复数: phones;第三人称单数: phones;过去式: phoned;过去分词: phoned;现在分词: phoning;

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1. iPhone (苹果手机) => phone.

中文词源

phone 电话

缩写自telephone.

英英释意

1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds;: "I talked to him on the telephone"

2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

3. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear;: "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked"

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.)).

考试真题

Lindsey, do you like to text message on your cell phone? Good morning, Mr.Johnson.

Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

Got a smart phone? Never lose your hotel key, or even have to stop at the registration desk again.

I have a boyfriend now, and I'm not interested in online dating," she said by phone last week.

I need to go make a quick phone call.

And the phone hasn't stopped ringing

Paul, tell me about the special project you mentioned on the phone.

Make a brief self-introduction on the phone

Nonetheless, I spend nearly every weekend at his house and we talk on the phone every night.

A recent study said that 40% of American teens claim to have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put people in danger.

But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our wor

Get on the phone to Tom, and try to get their stand-ins over tonight.

I'll phone you afterwards, but perhaps you should put in an application anyway.

Neon is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco.

Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter and the most unfriendly is email.

Phone lines could only transmit information at a limited rate.

So when I apologize, I usually choose in-person first, or a phone conversation as my top alternative, and Maybe a handwritten note next.

So, Lindsey, do you like to text message on your cell phone?

The device plugs into the ground, and then into a mobile phone.

The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.

In an era of instant information, shoppers can use their mobile phones to find deals.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.

But after she snapped a photo and started using her phone, he asked her a serious question: "Are you going to post that online?"

But there's still someone who deserves scrutiny—the person holding the phone.

By the end of 2013, Nokia had sold its phone business to Microsoft.

From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.

If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

In 2007, Nokia accounted for more than 40% of mobile phone sales worldwide.

Many people, it seems, are uneasy living in a thickening cloud of radio waves from mobile phone towers and the gadgets they communicate with.

Mobile phone champion Nokia, one of Europe's biggest technology success stories, was no 26 exception, losing its market share in just a few years.

Now, imagine the same dinner, but instead of checking their phone, the person belches—loudly.

On Jan 9, 2007, Steve Jobs formally announced Apple's "revolutionary mobile phone"—a device that combined the functionality of an iPod, phone and Internet communication into a single unit, navigated by touch.

On the one side, you have the United States government's mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer' phone.

Once one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction.

She suggests downloading the Instant or Moment apps to see how many times you turn on your phone each day.

Smith says he'll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting.

The average person turns on their phone 150 times every day.

The number of devices you can talk to is multiplying—first it was your phone, then your car, and now you can tell your kitchen appliances what to do.

The reality is, taking one's phone out at the wrong time is worse than belching because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious.

The rise of the mobile phone has recently added a new level of complexity to the process of retail reinvention.

Through regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting, individual farm visits and thousands of phone calls, the Amburghs pass on the principles of pasture management.

When college students were reminded of a time they had been excluded in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualitie

When Tm doing something I'd rather not do, or when I'm someplace I'd rather not be, I use my phone to port myself elsewhere.

A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships.

And mp3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.

I couldn't reach anyone at the phone number on the cat's tag.

Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! he didn't have food, water, a phone, or other supplies.

Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants.

Consider again the cell-phone, and imagine the mines that produced those metals, the factories needed to make the box and packaging (包装) It came in.

Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992.

Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone.

From what I have seen, few do homework; instead many are on their phones and talking, making it impossible for those who actually want to do work to complete any.

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

He has a constant urge to check for text messages; he checks his phone every five minutes! He's so addicted to it that he just can't stand the idea that there may be an important text.

He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper with whom he's on a first-name basis if he wants to have a little interaction.

I absent-mindedly turned the pages of the phone book and came across a city map.

I now regularly pull out my phone to check a fact, watch a video, read weibo.

I want to fix my cell phone.

If we go somewhere and I ask him to leave the phone at home, he suffers from withdrawal symptoms.

In the 1950s in the usa, most families had just one phone at home, and wireless phones hadn't been invented yet.

In the United States alone, over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year.

Late in the evening, the phone rang.

My husband answered it while I was on the phone in the dining room.

Once, a passenger next to me talked out loud on his mobile phone.

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

People of all ages happily walk along the pavement with eyes and hands glued to the mobile phone, quite unaware of what is going on around them.

Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real.

The ad had a phone number for a town in southern Michigan.

The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

The doctor shares his phone number with the patients in case they need medical assistance.

The girl's parents got rashid's phone number from a letter in his papers.

The passenger made an apology to angie o'edema because he spoke very loudly on his phone.

The professor warned the students that on no account should they use mobile phones in his class.

The report said they also faced pressure to respond to messages at all hours of the day—especially at secondary school when more youngsters have mobile phones.

Then, one day, the phone rang and Steve Tregear, the Coastguard of Cornwall, asked holder if he would like his dog bark.

They were prevented from using mobile phones.

To enjoy the convenience of digital payment, many senior citizens started to use smart phones.

Today, a man talked very loud on his phone on a train between malvern and reading, making many passengers upset.

Walking while using phones hurts one's eyes.

When his phone rang again later, he left his seat to answer it.

When I ask him to please put down the phone and stop ignoring me, he says, "In a minute," but still checks to see if someone has posted something new on the Internet.

When most of us get a text message on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say "Sorry?"

You can sell the phone, and it can be recycled.

You left it by the phone.

This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, rifling through a suspect’s purse.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

In many cases, it would not be overly onerous for authorities to obtain a warrant to search through phone contents.

But exploring one’s smart phone is more like entering his or her home.

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people.

A smart phone may contain an arrestee’s reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence.

Simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an official act.

But exploring one's smart phone is more like entering his or her home.

But you wouldn't know it, plugged into your phone.

Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through.

Fast-food chains should also stop offering "inducements" such as toys, cute animals and mobile phone credit to lure young customers, Stephenson said.

Few of us just walk straight into the woods without a phone.

If you get lost without a phone or a compass, and you literally can't find north, a few tricks to help you navigate back to civilization, one of which is to follow the land.

Imagine you are pouring your heart out to someone and they are just busy on their phone, and if you ask for their attention you get the response "I can multitask".

In many cases, it would not be overly burdensome for authorities to obtain a warrant to search through phone contents.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an "official act".

The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while waiting for a warrant.

They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone—a vast storehouse of digital information—is similar to, say, going through a suspect's purse.

This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

实用场景例句

I have to make a phone call .: 我得打个电话。

The phone rang and Pat answered it.: 电话一响帕特便接了。

They like to do business by phone/over the phone .: 他们喜欢用电话 / 在电话上谈生意。

His phone must be switched off.: 他的电话一定是关机了。

I hadn't got my phone with me.: 我没有带手机。

a phone bill: 电话费单

to pick up the phone: 拿起电话

to put the phone down: 放下电话

He left the phone off the hook as he didn't want to be disturbed.: 他不想被电话打扰，就把电话听筒摘下来了。

dictaphone: 口述录音机

xylophone: 木琴

anglophone: 讲英语的（人）

francophone: 讲法语的（人）

He's been on the phone to Kate for more than an hour.: 他给凯特打电话讲了一个多小时了。

They're not on the phone at the holiday cottage.: 他们的度假别墅没装电话。

I was just phoning up for a chat.: 我只是打电话聊聊天。

He phoned to invite me out for dinner.: 他打电话请我外出吃饭。

Someone phone for an ambulance!: 谁打电话叫辆救护车！

Could you phone back later?: 您过一会儿再打电话来好吗？

He phoned home , but there was no reply.: 他往家里打电话，但没有人接。

You can buy insurance over the phone...: 你可以通过电话购买保险。

She looked forward to talking to her daughter by phone...: 她盼望着能打电话和女儿交谈。

Two minutes later the phone rang...: 两分钟后电话响了。

Doug's 14-year-old son Jamie answered the phone.: 道格14岁的儿子杰米接了电话。

She picked up the phone, and began to dial Maurice Campbell's number...: 她拿起电话听筒，开始拨打莫里斯·坎贝尔的号码。

Trembling, she put the phone down. It rang again almost immediately.: 她颤抖着放下电话听筒，电话几乎立刻又响了起来。

He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better...: 他打电话给劳拉看她是不是好些了。

I got more and more angry as I waited for her to phone.: 我等她电话的时候，越等越生气。

She's always on the phone, wanting to know what I've been up to.: 她老来电话，想知道我在做什么。

The Frosts were not on the phone.: 福罗斯特家没装电话。

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