ringer
ringer 英 ['rɪŋə] 美 ['rɪŋɚ]
n. 套环，投环；按铃者；敲钟者
名词复数:ringers
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- n. 套环，投环；按铃者；敲钟者
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1. Put it on your computer, or add it to your ringer, but own it.
放进电脑里或加到手机铃声里，但关键是，要拥有它。
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2. Asking yourself where you last saw the phone and praying that its ringer is not set to silent.
你会责问自己最后一次是在哪里看见手机，还祈祷手机的铃声没有设为静音模式。
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3. The bartender shook my bottle of ale in front of me like a Swiss bell-ringer so it foamed inside the green glass.
酒保在我面前摇着麦芽酒，就像是一名瑞士乐手在摇动手铃，绿色的酒瓶里晃出了许多泡沫。
- ringer (n.) early 15c., "one who rings" (a bell), agent noun from ring (v.1). In quoits (and by extension, horseshoes) from 1863, from ring (v.2). Especially in be a dead ringer for "resemble closely," 1891, from ringer, a fast horse entered fraudulently in a race in place of a slow one (the verb to ring in this sense is attested from 1812), possibly from British ring in "substitute, exchange," via ring the changes, "substitute counterfeit money for good," a pun on ring the changes in the sense of play the regular series of variations in a peal of bells (1610s). Meaning "expert" is first recorded 1918, Australian slang, from earlier meaning "man who shears the most sheep per day" (1871).
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