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打电话 (打電話)
  • [dǎdiànhuà]
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打电话 [dǎdiànhuà]
  1. 1. telephone; call; ring

Examples

正想给他打电话,偏巧他把电话打过来了。
他沉吟了一会儿才去打电话
He hesitated for a while before he made the phone call.
打电话
make a phone call
他正在打电话
He's on the phone.
横竖我要去的,不用给他打电话了。
No need to ring him up. I'll be going there anyway.
哪个在打电话
Who's using the telephone?
别忘了给我打电话
Don't forget to phone me.
你现在给他打电话,他准保会来。
He will certainly come if you ring him up now.
他给家里打电话总是报喜不报忧。
Every time he calls home, he tells the good news but never mentions the bad.
他逼命似不断给我打电话,可这事我办不了。
He kept calling to me to ask me to do a task that I could not do.

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To make a phone call


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