The telephones are manned 24 hours a day by volunteers.

每天24小时都有志愿者接听电话。

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None of the telephones are working.

没有一部电话是可以用的。

youdao

Other open systems such as the mails, the roads or the telephones come to perform a function in society that transcends their simple technical characteristics.

其它的开放系统，例如邮政、道路或者是电话都承担了一个超越它们本身简单技术特征的社会服务功能。

youdao

"The militants have the telephones the wireless communication,"

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Until the teens, telephones were very expensive because they didn't have good amplification technology.

在20年代之前,电话还是奢侈品,因为它们还没有增强讯号技术

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The reason they call them boiler rooms is, if you are selling stocks by telephone there's no reason to rent a nice office, so you get the cheapest -so you put a whole bank of telephones in the cheapest place.

它之所以被叫做锅炉房是因为,如果通过电话进行买卖交易,你没有必要去租一间漂亮的办公室,于是你租了最便宜的出租房,然后在那儿放满电话

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It is not the same as just adding up all the telephones, plant and equipment.

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At 8:56 a.m. the president telephones Jordan, going on down to 10:56 a.m. the president telephones Jordan at his office.

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The telephones will not ring, all those kinds of things.

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