C a telephone 电话；电话机 | May I use the phone in your office? 我可以借用一下你办公室的电话吗？ |
| The phone rang five times in the next hour. 在接下来的一个小时中，电话铃响了5次。 |
| answer the phone I rang his house but his mother answered the phone. 我往他家里打电话，但接电话的是他妈妈。 |
| | a | singular the system for speaking to someone on the telephone 电话系统 | | on the phone (=talking using the telephone) Our teenagers spend hours on the phone every day. 通电话 | | by phone/over the phone (=using the telephone) We take orders by phone or by email. 通电话 | |
| | b | singular the part of a telephone that you speak into 受话器；听筒 | | pick up/put down the phone She picked up the phone but didn’ t speak. 她拿起电话听筒但没有说话。 | | put the phone down on sb (=suddenly end your telephone conservation with someone) Don’ t you dare put the phone down on me! 挂断某人的电话 | |