“The power lines have gone down — we can’t reach anyone there, ” Bill Davis, a meteorologist at the Springfield, Mo., office of the National Weather Service, said in a telephone interview.

来自国家气象局斯普林菲尔德办公室的气象学家比尔·戴维斯在星期一的电话采访中说：“输电线路都被破坏，我们在那儿什么也看不见。”

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He put the telephone bill down as a business cost.

他把电话费用作为办公费记下。

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If you go on calling him you'll run up a huge telephone bill.

如果你继续给他打电话，你的电话费用将会激增。

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You had to have some identification, whether it was a power bill, a hunting and fishing license, a rent receipt, a telephone bill.

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