rings
A ring is the sound that a telephone makes to let you know that someone is phoning you.
After at least eight rings, an ancient-sounding maid answered the phone.
电话响了至少8声后,一个听上去很老的女仆接了电话。
The ring of a bell is the sound that it makes.
There was a ring of the bell.
铃声响了。
You can use ring to describe a quality that something such as a statement, discussion, or argument seems to have. For example, if an argument has a familiar ring, it seems familiar.
His proud boast of leading 'the party of low taxation' has a hollow ring.
他有关领导“主张低税收的政党”的豪言有一种空洞的感觉。
A ring is a small circle of metal or other substance that you wear on your finger as jewellery.
a gold wedding ring.
一枚黄金婚戒。
An object or substance that is in the shape of a circle can be described as a ring.
Frank took a large ring of keys from his pocket.
弗兰克从口袋里拿出了一个大串钥匙。
A group of people or things arranged in a circle can be described as a ring.
They then formed a ring around the square.
他们随后绕着广场围成了一圈。
At a boxing or wrestling match or a circus, the ring is the place where the contest or performance takes place. It consists of an enclosed space with seats around it.
He will never again be allowed inside a boxing ring.
他被禁止再次进入拳击场。
You can refer to an organized group of people who are involved in an illegal activity as a ring.
Police are investigating the suspected drugs ring at the school.
警方正在调查这所学校的贩毒嫌疑团伙。
A gas or electric ring is one of the small flat areas on top of a stove which heat up and which you use for cooking.
ring back
If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
ring in
If you ring in, you phone a place, such as the place where you work.
ring off
When you ring off, you put down the receiver at the end of a telephone call.
ring round , ring around
If you ring round or ring around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
ring up
Ring up means the same as ringverb:intransitive2.
If a shop assistant rings up a sale on a cash register, he or she presses the keys in order to record the amount that is being spent.
She was ringing up her sale on an ancient cash register.
她正在把销售额记入那台老旧的收款机。
If a company rings up an amount of money, usually a large amount of money, it makes that amount of money in sales or profits.
The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.
这家广告代理商的年销售额达14亿美元。
ring true , ring hollow
If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
Joanna's denial rang true.
乔安娜的否认听上去像是真的。
give someone a ring
If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
We'll give him a ring as soon as we get back.
我们一回来就会给他电话。
rings , ringing , rang , ringed , rung , ringed
When a telephone rings, it makes a sound to let you know that someone is phoning you.
As soon as he got home, the phone rang.
他刚一到家,电话就响了。
When you ring someone, you telephone them.
When you ring a bell or when a bell rings, it makes a sound.
He heard the school bell ring.
他听见学校的铃响了。
If you say that a place is ringing with sound, usually pleasant sound, you mean that the place is completely filled with that sound.
The whole place was ringing with music.
整个地方回荡着音乐声。
If a building or place is ringed with or by something, it is surrounded by it.
The areas are sealed off and ringed by troops.
这一地区被封锁了,被军队包围了。