phone

phone1
noun
  1. short for telephone
    telephone 的简称
    ■(phones)(informal)headphones or earphones
    (非正式)受话器,耳机,听筒
verb
  1. (亦作 phone up 或 phone someone up)call or speak to someone on the telephone
    打电话
    [with obj.]he phoned her at work.
    他工作时给她打电话。
    [no obj.]she phoned about twenty minutes ago.
    她20分钟前打过电话。
    ■(phone it in)(US informal)work or perform in a desultory fashion
    (美,非正式)散漫地做;无条理地做

phone2
noun
  1. (Phonetics)a speech sound; the smallest discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech
    (语音)语音;音子,音素
语源
  1. mid 19th cent.: from Greek phōnē 'sound, voice'
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