She looks up at the telephone wires, and she thinks about all the messages, unintelligible, full of human longing, going back and forth across those wires.

她看着电话线，想着那些莫名其妙的，充满了人类欲望的信息电线上来回踱着步。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And she has that vision of the telephone wires, and she looks up at them as she has just doubted all of the possibilities for making sense of the post horn and the Tristero.

她看着电话线，边看着边怀疑着,弄清楚,译车号和post，horn的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选