ring up

打电话； 用收银机记录（收入的钱）

verb

1. to perform and record a sale on a cash register

e.g. Sally rang up Eve's purchase of tomatoes

1. -> see ring 1

2. 把(钱款)记入(收款机)
If a shop assistant rings up a sale on a cash register, he or she presses the keys in order to record the amount that is being spent.

e.g. She was ringing up her sale on an ancient cash register.
她正用一台老掉牙的收银机记账。

3. 赚取;盈利
If a company rings up an amount of money, usually a large amount of money, it makes that amount of money in sales or profits.

e.g. The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.
这家广告代理商每年销售额达14亿美元。

Did you ring up your father last week?(上周你给你的父亲打电话了吗？)

Not exactly an 'awesome job' by any means, but it's a start. When I got home, the first thing I did was to ring up the number.(虽然这还算不上那种真正意义上的‘梦幻工作’，但这毕竟是一个好的开头。那天我回家干的第一件事便是打通那个电话。)

I should ring up her mother.(我应该给她妈妈打个电话。)

Did a girl called Gao Hong ring up for me this morning?(今早有个叫高红的女孩给我打电话了吗？)

I am set to ring up the curtain on a new lifestyle.(我要开始一种新的生活方式。)

Does the software support Bar Code Scanning to ring up items?(软件支持条形码符合格律把项目记入收款机吗?。)

When he first gave me a thumbs up I thought maybe had detected something, and then after he held my ring up I just ran.(当他第一次向我竖起大拇指，我想也许是发现了什么东西，然后他举起我的戒指，我就跑了。)

I'll ring up in a minute.(我马上就打电话。)

If you can't come ring up and let me know.(你要是来不了，请打电话让我知道一声。)

I'll ring up if he's there.(我去打个电话看他在不在那里。)