Call,phone,ring三个词的区别
Call,phone,ring三个词的区别
Today we answer an email from Nathaniel in South Sudan.
今天，我们将回复南苏丹纳撒尼尔的一封电子邮件。
He asks:What is the difference between phone, call and ring?
他问三个词有什么区别?
That is a great question. We use these words when talking about telephone calls and other kinds of communication.
这个问题很好，我们在打电话和其他交流场合时都会用到这些词。
All three words can be used as nouns and have a verb form. Today, I will be looking at the verb forms.
这三个词都既是名词又是动词。今天，主要说一下动词形式。
Phone
The Scottish-born scientist and engineer Alexander Graham Bell is famous for his invention of the telephone. In 1876, the United States government approved a patent on Bell’s telephone. The move gave him the exclusive right to the technology. So no one else could manufacture or sell his invention for a number of years.
苏格兰出生的科学家兼工程师亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔以发明电话而闻名。1876年，美国政府批准了贝尔电话的专利，这一举动使他拥有这项技术的专属权利。因此，很多年没有其他人能够制造或出售他的发明。
Since that time, people have shortened the noun "telephone" to "phone" and started to use it as a verb, meaning to call someone on a telephone. In Britain, it is common to hear people use the verb "ring" for this same purpose. But there is no rule that requires a speaker of American English to only use "phone" or a speaker of British English to only use "ring."
从那时起，人们就把“telephone电话”这个名词缩短为“phone打电话”，并开始用它作为动词，意思是给某人打电话。在英国，人们使用动词“ring”来表达同样的意思是很常见的。但是没有一条规则要求说美音的人只使用“phone”，也不要求说英音的人只使用“ring”。
Here are some examples of how we use "phone."
下面是我们如何使用“phone”的一些示例。
Can I phone my wife? She would know the answer to this.
我能给我妻子打电话吗?她可能知道答案。
She couldn't stop to phone for help.
她无法停下来打电话求助。
Ring
You may hear the verb "ring" when someone talks about the sound of alarm bells.
当有人说到警报的声音时，可能会用到动词“ring”。
I heard the doorbell ring.
我听到门铃响了。
The sign said, 'Ring for Service.'
牌子上写着：如需服务请按铃。
In addition, a common two-word verb is "ring up." We may ask a store employee to "ring up" our purchase, that is, enter the prices on a machine.
此外，一个常见的动词词组是ring up。我们可以要求商店员工为我们购买的东西“ring up”，也就是说，在机器上输入商品的价格。
Google’s Ngram Viewer is an online tool to learn about words. It looks at the words from Google books to show how often people use words over time and in what places.
谷歌的Ngram Viewer是一个学习单词的在线工具。它通过查看谷歌书籍中的单词，来显示人们在不同的时间和地点使用单词的频率。
We used the Google Ngram Viewer to compare British and American usage of the three words. It found that the word 'ring' was a little more popular than 'phone' in British English.
我们使用谷歌的 Ngram Viewer来比较英国和美国对这三个词的使用情况，发现在英音中“ring”这个词比“phone”更受欢迎。
It found that 'phone' is more popular than 'ring' in American English。
但在美音中正相反。
Call
In both online tests, the word "call" was much more common than either ‘phone’ or ‘ring’. English speakers often use "call" to talk about using the telephone to contact someone, such as in the following sentence:
在两次在线测试中发现，“call”这个词比另外两个更常见。说英语的人经常用“call”来表达用电话联系某人，例如在下面这句话中：
Call the police.
报警。
Even more often, we use it in a general sense, as in “give a name to” or “label.”
甚至更多的时候，我们在一般意义上使用它，比如“给一个名字”或“标签”。
They do not want us to call them pirates, but they are stealing.
他们不想让我们称他们为海盗，但他们确实在偷窃。
Do you call that bag of potato chips your dinner?
你说那袋薯片是你的晚餐吗?
We also use “call” in the sense of “ask” or “request.”
我们还在“询问”或“请求”的意义上使用“call”。
Let’s call a meeting for tomorrow afternoon.
我们明天下午开会吧。
So here is my advice on using phone, call and ring:
以下是我对如何使用这三个词的建议：
You can use any one of them to refer to making a telephone call. “Call” is the most common in American English. As you learn more English, you will learn many expressions that include “call.” I’ll share one with you here:Let’s call it a day.
你可以用任何一个词来指打电话，“call”是美语中最常见的词。当你学到更多的英语时，你会学到很多有关call的表达方式，我在这里和你分享一个：今天到此为止吧。
That is, our work is done; let’s take a deep breath and relax.
也就是说，我们的工作完成了，让我们深吸一口气，放松一下。
That’s all.
今天的内容就是这些了。
