有一下几种：
1、to pick up the telephone
2、to lift the telephone
3、 put sb. on to
4、 answer the telephone
5、answer the phone
以上都是表示接电话的意思，具体例子如下：
（1）Will you answer the telephone if it rings?
电话铃声响时请你接电话好吗?
（2）He was too lazy to bestir himself even to answer the telephone.
他懒得甚至不愿接电话.
（3） I telephoned， but nobody answered the telephone.
我打了电话，但没有人来接电话。
（4）Smith was laughing up his sleeve when Joe answered the phone because he knew the call would be a joke.
乔接电话时，史密斯在偷笑，因为他知道那是一个开玩笑的电话。
（5）He is in conference and cannot come to the telephone.
他在开会，没空来接电话。
