pay phone的意思

基本释义

• 付费电话

  a public telephone that you can use when you put in a coin or a credit card

例句

1. The newspapers near the pay phone in Central Perk are six months old.

   中央咖啡馆里，公用电话旁边的报纸已经摆了半年了。

2. Backpacking through Austria that spring, I used a youth hostel pay phone to call home, only to learn that I’d been rejected from the 27 medical schools where I had applied.

   那年春天，在我身背背包周游奥地利期间，我用一家青年旅馆的投币电话打电话回家时才知道，我所申请的27所医学院没有一所录取我。

3. I went right to the pay phone, called Hillary, told her the story, and said I thought we could win.

   我直接朝投币电话亭走去，拨通了希拉里的电话，把这件事告诉了她，并对她说，我觉得这次我们能赢。