Melissa had chain-smoked all evening while she waited for a phone call from Tom.

等汤姆的电话时，梅丽萨整晚连续地抽烟。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I need to make a phone call.

我需要打个电话。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I have to make a phone call.

我得打个电话。

《牛津词典》

He recounts a phone call with his mother before taking the 200-meter gold in record time Thursday night.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Now granted we're now starting to take this all shuttle theme to an extreme perhaps, but we realized you know what, it's actually not that efficient sometimes to call a phone number, it's not that efficient to pull up the mobile web.

我们现在都已经习以为常了,我们都认为极为平常了，把这些关于班车的程序做的很好了,但我们有些时候拨打一个电话，或上一下移动网络。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I had a napping for a very pushy phone call from a very pushy TFA recruiter on the deadline day-- I would not apply.

招聘到期日，固执的组织招募人员,打来电话，听电话时我差点睡着-,我本不会应聘。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This is because there is an obvious start and end point to a phone call.

BBC: Graphic

The Payne County emergency management director did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

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All it took was a phone call to the pharmacy that dispenses her meds.

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