他说：Bell电话公司当初收购了许多地方电话公司，把这些小公司统统合并成一家庞大的企业，Bell公司这才跃居世界首位。 Bell公司一古脑儿地网罗了那些小公司，以成为规模巨大的企业，所以这里的 lock, stock and barrel 显然解释“统统地、一古脑儿地。”

1：In the old days the bell Telephone Company became the biggest in the world by buying up a lot of local phone companies, lock, stock and barrel and merging them into one giant corporation.

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地方运营商向那些通过其转接台的电话收费。

Regional carriers get paid for calls that pass through their switches.

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移动电话和它的祖先固定电话的区别在于，移动电话号码对应的是一个人，而固定电话对应的是一个地方。

The difference between the mobile phone and its parent, the fixed-line phone, is that a mobile number corresponds to a person, while a landline goes to a place.

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And what's interesting about it, and what indicates its importance to Buddy, is that Bessie gets on about him getting a phone ; where he's teaching in upstate New York; he's teaching writing as a visiting writer at a college in upstate New York. And Bessie, his mother, keeps saying, "Well, why won't you get a phone, Buddy?

有意思的是，这对巴蒂很重要，因为，贝西给他打了一个电话,在他在纽约北部教书的地方;,他教写作，作为访问学者在,纽约北部的一所大学里，贝西，他的妈妈，说，好了，为什么你不接电话？

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