托福詞匯短語匯總（二）

to ring around

短語 to ring around 指給很多人打電話。
例句
Last Valentine's Day, I spent the whole day ringing round all the florists in West London. They had all sold out of red roses!
Let's organise a surprise party for Lisa! You ring round her friends and I'll send an email to her family.
請注意
另外有一個很相似的短語 run rings around，但意思完全不一樣，指很容易擊敗某人。
例句
United are going to thrash Arsenal at the weekend. You wait and see... they'll run rings round them.
When it comes to customer satisfaction, we've run rings around our competitors for years.
今日小常識
Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell was credited with inventing the telephone in 1876. The telephone has literally changed our lives and how we communicate around the world.
在蘇格蘭出生的美國發(fā)明家亞歷山大•格拉漢姆•貝爾在1876年發(fā)明了電話。電話的發(fā)明改變了世界，改變了人類在世界各地的溝通方式。