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pay-phone

UK // (ˈpeɪˌfəʊn) //

付费电话,公用电话,收费电话,公共电话

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.

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Examples

  • He headed toward the river, then gathered his wits and started looking for a pay phone.

  • “Civil war has broken out here,” she told a UPI editor after finding a pay phone, “and I’ve got the story!”

  • He proposed to Joanne in a letter, and she called from a pay phone to accept.

  • Back then, reporting rare birds required phoning in observations to a “rare bird phone tree,” usually via the nearest pay phone—and hoping that word got out.

  • “We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.

  • He added, "I have not had this many phone calls since the shutdown of the government, truthfully."

  • Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.

  • I was declared innocent, and they said I should pay $104,000.

  • The escort site Cowboys4Angels peddles chiseled, hot-bodied men and their smoldering model looks to women willing to pay.

  • Now, on my first day here, you pay me back for what I did then—as if it needed paying back!

  • “We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,” said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers.

  • Condillac after the marquis's death had refused to pay tithes to Mother Church and has flouted and insulted the Bishop.

  • Of course, newly acquired Ferns will pay for extra attention in the way of watering until they have secured a proper roothold.

  • In these enlightened days no man is imprisoned for owing money, but only because he does not pay it when told to do so.