Examples

现在电话普及到家庭，传呼电话已逐步被淘汰。

Now, as telephones are becoming universal among families, neighborhood telephone services are gradually falling into disuse.

正想给他打电话，偏巧他把电话打过来了。

安装电话

install a telephone

你就不会打个电话问一问？

Couldn't you have phoned up and asked?

电话不通。

The line's dead.

他沉吟了一会儿才去打电话。

He hesitated for a while before he made the phone call.

电话串线

get the (telephone) lines crossed

打电话

make a phone call

电话打不通

be unable to get through (on the telephone)

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