incoming telephone call (or telegram) · to phone in; to send in a telegram · to have an instant attraction to sb · (of electricity, after an outage) to come back

lái diàn

l+ái·2nd toned+iàn·4th tone

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The telephone operator asked the caller to hold on until a connection was made.

电话运营商提示来电人等候接通。

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