1. “Instead, you have spent an exceedingly dull evening at the opera with a fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room.
    "然而，你却在歌剧院里陪着个胖子打发了一个极度无聊的夜晚。根本没有什么黑眸美女偷偷将情报塞到他手里，他只是接了一个普通的电话，约在他住的地方见面。

2. “A phone call,” said one of the policemen, “would have done it.”
    有名警察说："一个电话就够了。"

3. B.You call your lawyer to discuss a possible lawsuit (诉讼案件).
    b.你打电话给你的律师，讨论发生诉讼的可能性。

4. "Now call a cop, I cannot pay.
    “叫警察去吧，我付不起钱。

5. "Well, why don´t you call a policeman?
    “好吧，那你为什么不叫警察？

6. "Perhaps you might seek the advice of men we call griots, respected village elders in their late sixties or seventies or eighties, who could tell you about their village history centuries back."
    “也许你可以去问问那些我们叫作“长老”的男人们，他们都有六十、七十或八十多岁，是村里受尊敬的老人。他们可以告诉你关于他们村庄几个世纪以前的历史。”

7. Unfortunately, I have to be back at my job in the United States, but I could call you every other day.
    可惜我得回美国干我的工作了，但我可以隔天给你打一次电话。

8. Oh, we all have friends we can tell important things to, people we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm.
    噢，我们都有朋友，可以把大事要事向他们倾诉。我们可以打电话对他们说我们丢了工作，或者说我们在湿滑的地板上摔倒了，跌断了胳膊。

9. Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o´clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped.
    他一看表，才1点钟，可是那钟一连敲了13下才停。

10. Last spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower.
    今年春天，妻子让我请人检查一下我家的割草机。