The expression comes from older telephone systems that use wires.

这个表述来自老式的电话电话系统，那时它们的都是用电线的。

You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.

如果你选择去评论邮局或电话局这样的替罪羊，那你就会很安全。

I've spent half an hour trying to get through your automated telephone system.

我花了半个小时才打通你们的自动电话系统。

The Braille telephone system, she said, will be a great help to her and others.

她说盲文电话系统将对她和其他人有巨大帮助。

Without women, the telephone system crashed without switchboard operators, and newspapers couldn't publish without typesetters.

没有妇女，就没有了接线员，电话系统瘫痪；报纸也因为没有排字工而无法出版。

Well, I've just spent half an hour trying to get through your automated telephone system.

我花了半个小时才打通你们的自动电话系统。

I'm ringing about the telephone system your firm installed here yesterday. We're not happy with it.

我打电话来是询问你们公司昨天在这里安装的电话系统。我们对它不太满意。

The money will be put directly into her hands through a mobile telephone system called M-PESA, introduced in Kenya in 2007.

这笔援助资金可以通过肯尼亚07年引进的M- PESA电话系统，直接交到艾琳手上。

This is how early telephone systems worked.

这就是早期电话系统的工作原理。

Our second topic today is the emergency telephone system in the United States.

我们今天的第二个话题是美国的紧急电话系统。

They will certainly lead to a global telephone system and end long-distance calls, for all calls will be local.

它们肯定会导致全球电话系统的出现并结束长途电话，因为所有电话都将是本地电话。

With the Western Electric Vail has realized the fundamental conception underlying his ideal telephone system — the standardization of equipment.

通过 Western Electric Vail 实现了他理想电话系统的基本概念——设备标准化。

Other nations have their telephone systems, but it is only in the United States that its possibilities have been even faintly realized.

其他国家都有他们的电话系统， 但只有在美国， 它的可能性才被隐约意识到。

Well, unfortunately, there is a problem with the order we received from you yesterday. It seems we haven't seen the right quantity of manuals to support the telephone system.

不幸的是，我昨天收到你的订单出了点问题。我们没有看见这个电话系统正确的使用手册。

Wozniak had built a product, known as a 'blue box' that could mimic the tones of a telephone system and essentially trick a phone into making a free long-distance call.

沃兹尼亚克打造了一个被称为“蓝盒子”的产品，它可以模拟电话系统的音调，用户可以打一个免费长途电话。

Two forces, American science and American business capacity, have accomplished this result. As a mechanism, this American telephone system is the product not of one but of many minds.

美国科学和美国商业能力这两种力量成就了这一结果。作为一种机制，这种美国电话系统不是一个人的产物，而是许多人的思想产物。

What can I do for you? -M: Well, unfortunately, there is a problem with the order we received from you yesterday. It seems we haven't seen the right quantity of manuals to support the telephone system.

我能为你做些什么吗？-M: 不幸的是，我昨天收到你的订单出了点问题。我们没有看见这个电话系统正确的使用手册。

For the accomplishment of his idea of a national telephone system, instead of a parochial one, Mr. Vail organized, in 1881, the American Bell Telephone Company, a corporation that really represented the federalization of all the telephone activities of the subsidiary companies.

为了实现他的全国电话系统而不是地方电话系统的想法，韦尔先生于 1881 年组织了美国贝尔电话公司，这家公司真正代表了子公司所有电话活动的联邦化。