telephone

英 ['telɪfəʊn] 美['tɛlə'fon]

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复数: telephones;第三人称单数: telephones;过去式: telephoned;过去分词: telephoned;现在分词: telephoning;

telephone 电话

tele-,远的，-phone,说话，词源同 microphone.

telephone (v.): 1878, from telephone (n.). Related: Telephoned; telephoning.
telephone (n.): 1835, "system for conveying words over distance by musical notes" (devised in 1828 by French composer Jean-François Sudré (1787-1862); each tone played over several octaves represented a letter of the alphabet), from French téléphone (c. 1830), from télé- "far" (see tele-) + phone "sound, voice," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Sudré's system never proved practical. Also used of other apparatus early 19c., including "instrument similar to a foghorn for signaling from ship to ship" (1844). The electrical communication tool was first described in modern form by Philip Reis (1861); developed by Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), and so called by him from 1876.

1. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday.: 他会为昨天公布的电话民意调查结果感到鼓舞。

2. "I think I hear the telephone ringing."—"Okay, I can take a hint.": “我想我听到电话铃在响。”——“好的，我明白你的意思了。”

3. The Chief Constable's clipped tones crackled over the telephone line.: 电话线那头噼里啪啦地传来警察局长短促的声音。

4. I ripped out the telephone wire that ran through to his office.: 我把通到他办公室的电话线拔掉了。