ring inverb詞源 1

• 1

  To make a phone call to (this place).

  • John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.
• 2

  To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.

  • We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.

ring inverb詞源 2

• 1

  To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.

  • T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in.
  • Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.