In those days, to make a call, you had to wind a handle at the side of your telephone. This produced enough electricity to make your call.

那时，你要打电话就得转动电话机旁的摇柄，才会产生足够的电供你打电话。

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They can consult their own clients on the other side of the world or a doctor in another country owing to the availability of expert telephone interpreters.

他们可以通过熟练专业的电话口译员向位于另一个半球的他们自己的客户或异国的医生进行咨询。

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The electricity line continues on the right side and the telephone line, now with cables instead of individual wires, is on the left.

电线仍分布在右侧，电话线分布在左侧，电缆则代替了单独的电线。

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Unlike most of its competitors, Southwest does not impose additional fees for items such as seat selection, fuel surcharges, curb side check-in and telephone reservations.

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No man who can sit in his own study with his telephone by his side, and thus listen to the performance of an opera at the Academy, will care to go to Fourteenth street and to spend the vening in a hot and crowded building.

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Telephone poles lean to one side, and there's a strong smell of sewage.

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