You're wanted on the phone.
还记得以前住在学校宿舍时，根本没有钱买手机，全宿舍的人只靠一个公共电话。等男朋友电话时，可以整个晚上心急如焚，在电话旁边踱来踱去。只可惜可能每通电话都不是找你的，你就俨如学校里的接线生。所以当你知道这个电话不是找你而找Jolin的话，你该怎么说呢？"Jolin, you're wanted on the phone." ‘Jolin，有电话找你。’
对话
A：May I speak to Mr. Barkley, please?
B：Can you hold the line, please? Mr. Barkley, you're wanted on the phone.
C：Oh, thank you. Hello, this is Stuart Barkley speaking.
A：Hello, Mr. Barkley. This is Andy Ho from the National Bank. I'm calling about your checking account, it's overdrawn I'm afraid.
C：Oh, really? I wonder how that could have happened. Let me check and I'll call you back.
甲：可以请巴里先生听电话吗?
乙：请你别挂线。巴里先生，你的电话。
丙：哦，谢谢。你好，我是巴里?斯图尔特。
甲：你好，巴里先生，我是国家银行的何安迪。我打来是告诉你有关支票户口的事，恐怕你的户口已经透支了。
丙：噢，真的吗? 为什么会发生这种事的我查过后再给你电话。
You're wanted on the phone." 如果电话是有分机的话，那你可以看清楚是第几条线，然后说："Jolin, you're wanted on line one." ‘一线电话找你，Jolin。’如果你连是谁打电话来都知道的话，那你就说："Jolin, Jay wants to talk to you on the phone." ‘Jolin，Jay要你听电话。’
叫人接电话除了说：There's a call for you.、You're wanted on the phone.、It's for you. 等，简简单单说一句：Tom, telephone.（汤姆，电话。）也可以。假如知道来电的是谁，不妨说出来：Tom, your girlfriend is on the phone.（汤姆，你女朋友来电话找你。）
可惜现在来电的是银行：I'm calling about your checking account, It's overdrawn I'm afraid.（我打电话来，是因为你的支票账户恐怕透支了。）这句英文值得注意。 首先，支票账户称为checking account，是美式英文；英式英文会说current account。从账户提款叫to take / draw money out of the account 或to withdraw money from the account，存款入账户则叫to pay / put money into the account。支票账户有定期结算单，那结算单叫statement。The bank sends me a statement for my checking account every month. 即‘银行每个月都会把支票账户结算单寄来’。
从账户提款是to draw money out of an account，透支当然就是to overdraw an account。不过overdraw一字多用过去分词形式overdrawn，作形容词，例如：The bank called to say that my account was overdrawn.（银行打电话来说，我的账户透支了。）假如要讲明透支多少，以下两个说法都可以：The account is $1,000 overdrawn.、The account is overdrawn by $1,000.（账户透支一千元。）
作者：古德明（香港） | 
