1·For blacks to compromise means they risk being called Uncle Toms by their co-workers.
那些妥协的黑人面临被他们的同事叫做“汤姆大叔”的风险。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·It felt funny being called uncle.
被人叫作叔叔感到怪怪的。
3·I called Uncle Brendan.
我打给布莱登叔叔了。
4·Some of the men above were tragically called Uncle Toms, but now one of them is poised to be the most powerful man in the world.
上面提到的一些人被人悲情地叫做“汤姆叔叔”，但是其中一位却被当作世界最有影响力的人物之一。
5·She could not even explain to herself why he was called the Alm-Uncle.
她甚至无法向自己解释为什么他被称为奥西姆大叔。
6·A market researcher called at the house where my uncle was living.
一位市场调查员到过我叔叔的住处。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
7·However, after my rich uncle who owns stock in the company called there and pulled the strings, I was hired right away.
但是我那个拥有这家公司股票的有钱叔叔的打电话去从中斡旋、幕后牵线，我马上就被雇用了。
8·Every thing being settled between them, Mr. Darcy's next step was to make your uncle acquainted with it, and he first called in Gracechurch-street the evening before I came home.
他们之间一切都商谈好了，达西先生的下一个步骤就是把这件事告诉你舅父，于是他就在我回家的前一天晚上，到天恩寺街来进行第一次访问。
9·“My uncle told me our dreaming tracks flow from the hills above it,” dreaming tracks—also called songlines—being an aborigine’s spiritual connection to the contours of the actual land.
梦想首曲目也被称为歌之路——作为一个原住民以实际土地轮廓的精神联系。
10·I called my uncle Mike and my agent, Perry Rogers, and told them, "Let's ask for a trade before he can control the story."
我给我的迈克叔叔和经纪人佩里·罗杰斯打了电话，然后跟他们说：“咱们趁他还没控制局面，赶快请求交易吧。”