1.If we had a telephone, I’d be calling Doc Murphy every hour.
英：[ˈkɔ:lɪŋ]
美：[ˈkɔlɪŋ]
n.
使命感
行业，职业
v.
称呼
喊叫
打电话（ call的现在分词）
call·ing
kaw lIng
复数:callings
词根：call
adj.caller 新鲜的
callable 随时可偿还的；请求即付的
n.call 电话；呼叫；要求；访问
caller 访客；[通信] 呼叫者；打电话者；召集员
vi.call 呼叫；拜访；叫牌
vt.call 呼叫；称呼；召集
noun
a strong inner impulse toward a particular course of action especially when accompanied by conviction of divine influence
the vocation or profession in which one customarily engages
the characteristic cry of a female cat in heatalso: the period of heat
calling for要求
calling card名片
calling up电台呼叫
cold calling无约电话；冷不妨电话；无准备访问；无准备调查访问
calling party主叫用户
profession, employment, career, pursuit, occupation
13世纪中期，“呼喊，喊叫”，还有“召唤或邀请”的意思，是 call（v.）的动名词。 “职业，专业，行业，职业”（1550年代）的意义可以追溯到哥林多前书 vii.20，其中它的意思是“生活中的位置或状态”。
召唤
召喚
呼叫
主叫
The first known use of calling was in the 13th century
callowadjective
lacking adult experience : immature
callow youth
callowadjective
lacking adult experience : immature
callow youth
callousadjective
being hardened and thickened
having calluses
callous hands
feeling or showing no sympathy for others : unfeeling
a callous refusal to help the poor
callousadjective
being hardened and thickened
having calluses
callous hands
feeling or showing no sympathy for others : unfeeling
a callous refusal to help the poor
callousadjective
being hardened and thickened
having calluses
callous hands
feeling or showing no sympathy for others : unfeeling
a callous refusal to help the poor
callositynoun
callus entry 1 sense 1
calliopenoun
a keyboard musical instrument consisting of a set of whistles sounded usually by steam
callingnoun
occupation sense 1, profession
callingnoun
the characteristic cry of a female cat in heatalso: the period of heat
1.If we had a telephone, I’d be calling Doc Murphy every hour.
2.“You never liked her. Now you’re calling her a troublemaker? You don’t know her at all. She’s the person I most want watching my back.”
3.“The aunties will soon be calling our numbers for breakfast.”
4.He thinks momentarily about calling his father, who would be the only person in town awake at that hour, but dismisses the idea after trying to come up with an explanation to give him.
5.Poppy and Mom—whom everyone had started calling Soo-Sun, in a way that made her common American name sound almost Chinese—began distributing presents to everybody.
6.“Why are you calling me here so late?” he asks her, distracted, his eyes still focused on the computer screen.
7.It wasn’t far, and I ran, calling their names as loud as I could.
8.Bailey persisted in calling her Mother Dear until the circumstance of proximity softened the phrase’s formality to “Muh Dear,” and finally to “M’Deah.”
9.I frowned, calling back more of the list of Presidents I had memorized for no particular reason when I was in school.
10.“All right then, you do me the courtesy of calling me what I want to be called.”
11.When I was little, I thought my parents were calling our poster the “Sir Ott,” which is how you pronounce Seurat, the name of the artist horn France who painted the picture.
12.Lydia sat in her car and tried calling Dill again.
13.Littlefinger came calling an hour after the Grand Maester had left, clad in a plum-colored doublet with a mockingbird embroidered on the breast in black thread, and a striped cloak of black and white.
14.All is quiet except for the rhythmical chirping of crickets calling out to each other.
15.I had thought of his voice calling for a long time, since the night of the storm when the ship had sailed away.
16.But then, once everyone starts calling him by his new name, Big Bird realizes that he doesn’t like it after all.
17.What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside?
18.Every other day, I hear Miss Celia on the phone in her room, calling and calling the society ladies.
19.He didn’t quite understand what Natalie meant when she talked about Ms. Morales calling social services, but he could see why it would be a problem to call the police.
20.They drafted a message to the white delegates, calling it a “moral appeal to the hearts and consciences of the people of our State.”
