| 释义 |
Examples:call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it—long-term calling card (telephone)—acknowledge one's calling to be emperor—calling card (telephone)—put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to—lit. wind sighing and crane calling [idiom.]—Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.—counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action—send a telegram or make a telephone call here (i.e. to the speaker)—invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); recruit talent—lit. call the fire burn the grass (idiom); to cause a quarrel by provocation—one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call—call in (to a broadcast program) (loanword) (Taiwan)—always be there for sb at their beck and call—call for the issue of a letter of credit (international trade)—switch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is disconnect the call)—take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth—call loudly (idiom); to get people's attention—call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders—call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers— |