词汇精选:telegram的用法和辨析
一、详细释义:
n.
电报 [C]
例句:
The telegram was sent reply prepaid.
电报已发出并已预付覆电费用。
例句:
A telegram will be the quickest way to transmit the message.
打电报将是传递这个信息的最快途径。
v.
用电报发送,发电报 [I,T]
例句:
My daughter telegrammed me yesterday.
我女儿昨天给我发了电报。
二、词义辨析:
cable,telegram,telegraph
这些名词都有“电报”之意。cable通常指通过海底电缆打的电报,也可指广义的电报。telegram常用词,指通过电报系统发出的信息,尤指具体的一份份电报。telegraph侧重指通信方式和电报业各,不可数名词,表想象概念。
三、相关短语:
letter telegram
书信电报
四、参考例句:
She has clapped a telegram for me.
她给我拍了封电报。
The telegram was sent reply prepaid.
电报已发出并已预付覆电费用。
The telegram was delivered early this morning.
这份电报是今天清晨送到的。
A telegram from Uncle Fred arrived.
弗雷德舅舅发的一封电报来了。
The telegram asked for an instant reply.
这封电报要求立即回复。
He was not alarmed at receiving the telegram.
他接到这封电报时并不心慌。
He ciphered the telegram in a few minutes.
他只用了几分钟就把电报译成密码。
We telephoned Jean a greetings telegram on her wedding day.
在琼结婚那天我们用电话给她发了个贺电。
The telegram turned out to have been bogus.
电报原来是假的。
I sent him a telegram, congratulating him on his success.
我给他发去一个电报,祝贺他的成功。