英语短语学习：打一圈电话

Ring around 打一圈电话
　　短语to ring around指给很多人打电话。
　　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.
　　注意：
　　另外有一个很相似的短语run rings around，但意思完全不一样，指很容易击败某人。
　　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.
　　常识补充
　　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.
　　在苏格兰出生的美国发明家亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔在1876年发明了电话。电话的发明改变了世界，改变了人类在世界各地的沟通方式。