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carry/wear a beeper
carry 和 wear 都表示携带/佩戴，wear 更强调别在身上。
Doctors in the hospital used to carry beepers.
医院里的医生以前随身携带传呼机。
寻呼机；传呼机
beepers — plural of beeper
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
寻呼机；传呼机
an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged
Doctors in the hospital used to carry beepers.
医院里的医生以前随身携带传呼机。
发出哔哔声的东西。
Something that makes a beeping sound.
In the hospital, doctors carry beepers so they can be reached quickly.
在医院，医生随身携带寻呼机，以便能快速联系到他们。
Before smartphones, many people used a beeper to stay in touch.
在智能手机出现之前，许多人用寻呼机保持联系。
Her beeper went off during the meeting, so she excused herself.
她的传呼机在会议期间响了，于是她借故离开。
carry 和 wear 都表示携带/佩戴，wear 更强调别在身上。
Doctors in the hospital used to carry beepers.
医院里的医生以前随身携带传呼机。
beeper 是传呼机，发出短促提示音时用动词 beep。
His beeper beeped during the meeting.
会议期间他的传呼机响了。
page 后接被呼叫的人，on/via 后接传呼机。
The nurse paged the doctor on his beeper.
护士通过传呼机呼叫医生。
Not this
Can you lend me beeper?
Use this
Can you lend me a beeper?
beeper 是可数名词单数，前面需要不定冠词 a；汉语没有冠词，学习者容易漏掉 a。加上 a 后名词短语才符合英语语法。
Not this
He has two beeper.
Use this
He has two beepers.
two 后接可数名词复数，beeper 的复数形式是 beepers；汉语名词没有单复数变化，所以容易漏掉 -s。改成 beepers 才能表示“两个传呼机”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
传呼机响了
My beeper went off during the meeting.
会议期间我的传呼机响了。
随身携带传呼机
Doctors used to carry beepers in the 1990s.
20世纪90年代医生们随身携带传呼机。
传呼机号码
He left his beeper number with the front desk.
他把传呼机号码留给了前台。
用传呼机呼叫某人
Staff could page the manager on his beeper.
员工可以用传呼机呼叫经理。
老式传呼机
The museum displays an old-fashioned beeper.
博物馆里陈列着一台老式传呼机。
传呼服务
The hospital closed its beeper service years ago.
这家医院多年前就停止了传呼服务。
Use beepers naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
联想：beep 是短促的哔哔声，beep-er 就是会哔哔响、提醒你回电的寻呼机。
语域：informal 常见场景：日常对话、医疗/紧急联络、怀旧或老式通讯场景 beeper 表示“寻呼机”时，通常用于口语或非正式场合；在正式书面语中更常见 pager，实际使用需根据语境判断。
keeper, deeper, creeper, sweeper, peeper, and cheaper all rhyme with beeper, matching the /iːpər/ ending. Note that words like viper (/ˈvaɪpər/) and caper (/ˈkeɪpər/) look similar but have a different vowel sound.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.