Word · CEFR A1 · Frequency #1346
phone
打电话；致电
To call (someone) using a telephone.
- 1.
To call (someone) using a telephone.
打电话给(某人)
打电话给(某人)；打电话给；打电话
In use
I phoned my mother yesterday.
She is phoning the doctor right now.
You should phone him as soon as possible.
phone sb
直接加人作宾语。
I'll phone you later.
我晚点打电话给你。
phone sb sth
可接双宾语，间接宾语在前。
She phoned me the news.
她打电话告诉我这个消息。
phone back
固定短语，表示回拨。
He said he would phone back.
他说他会回电话。
phone for sth
后接所要的东西或服务。
We need to phone for a taxi.
我们需要打电话叫出租车。
Verb forms
base phone · third person phones · -ing phoning · past phoned · past participle phoned
Common mistakes
I will phone to you tomorrow.I will phone you tomorrow.
动词 'phone' 是及物动词，直接接宾语，不需要介词 'to'。中文的‘打电话给某人’误导了介词的使用。
He phoned me by phone.He phoned me.
'phone' 本身已包含‘用电话’的含义，再加 'by phone' 是冗余表达。直接使用 'phone someone' 即可。
Connections
Collocations
- phone someone back
- 给某人回电话
- I missed your call, so I phoned her back after lunch.我错过了你的电话，所以午饭后给她回了电话。
- phone in sick
- 打电话请病假
- He was too ill to go to work, so he phoned in sick.他病得无法上班，就打电话请了病假。
- phone the police
- 给警察打电话
- If you see anything suspicious, phone the police immediately.如果你看到任何可疑情况，请立即给警察打电话。
- phone for a taxi
- 打电话叫出租车
- We need to phone for a taxi to get to the airport.我们需要打电话叫出租车去机场。
- phone up
- 打电话（给某人）
- She phoned up the office to ask about the job.她给办公室打电话询问工作的事。
- phone to say
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 phone 想成手机屏幕上的通话图标，看到它就在提醒你：动词 phone = 打电话给某人。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常对话、一般商务沟通、电话留言 phone 作动词时多用于日常交流或一般性场合，表示“打电话给某人”；如需更正式的表达，可考虑用 telephone。
Grammar Note
可作及物动词（打电话给某人）或不及物动词（打电话）。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都以 -one 结尾，读作 /oʊn/：bone, stone, tone, cone, alone, drone。注意：不要被拼写误导——one 读 /wʌn/，gone 读 /ɡɔːn/，done 读 /dʌn/，它们与 phone 不押韵。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.