beeper
beeper — 名詞
- beepersingular
- beepersplural
1. a small device you carry on your body that alerts you with a beep or shake when
呼叫器
隨身攜帶的電子裝置，可接收來電通知
a small device you carry on your body that alerts you with a beep or shake when another person needs to speak to you by phone
Antonia's beeper went off during the meeting, so she stepped out to call the office.
Antonia 的呼叫器在會議中響了，所以她走到會議室外打電話回辦公室。
possessive: [person]'s beeper + collocation 'went off'
The night nurse kept her beeper on the desk in case of an emergency.
夜班護理師把呼叫器放在桌上，以備緊急情況使用。
Ishaan checked the number on his beeper and walked to the payphone in the hallway.
Ishaan 看了呼叫器上的號碼，走到走廊的公共電話前回撥。
check the number on [possessive] beeper
The technician repaired ten old beepers that the warehouse had stored since the 1990s.
技師修理了十台倉庫自 1990 年代以來庫存的舊呼叫器。
- beeper goes off
- beeper buzzes / beeps / vibrates
- carry a beeper
- wear a beeper
- beeper number
- page someone on a beeper
文法句型
a + beeper
[person]'s + beeper
beeper + verb (go off, buzz, vibrate)
用法筆記
Beeper is less common today because mobile phones have largely replaced pagers. In American English, 'pager' is the more frequent term.