20-12-27 If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something. 如果某人给你打了个冷电话（cold call），就是说他在与你素未联络、且并未预约的情况下贸然致电或拜...

15-12-25 PLEASE, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won't ask anything else of You, truly I won't. It isn't very much to ask. It would be so little to You, God, such a little, little thing. Only let him telephone now. Please, God...

14-09-29 Recalibration Polly Buckingham The repairman arrives at night to fix the telephone wires fried by lightning. He unscrews a metal box encasing a joint, and a tangle of colored cords spills out like a half-remembered dream. It works, he says. But it w...

12-07-04 Financier J. B. Fuqua has made a fortune putting deals together over the telephone. His most important strategy is to make notes before he places a call. To avoid playing telephone tag, return phone calls right away, because you're likely to catch t...

12-02-15 Almost 30 percent of Shenzhen's telephone booths and 861 newsstands have been removed in the city in the weeks leading up to the 26th World University Games. 距第26届世界大学生运动会开幕还有数周之际，深圳已清除了市内近30%的电话亭和861个报刊亭。 上面...

10-09-11 A pensioner has found a novel use for an old red telephone box, turning it into a lavatory. 英国一位退休老人近日极富创意地将一座陈旧的红色电话亭改造成一间室外卫生间。 The red telephone box converted into a toilet. John Long, 73, spent months convert...

10-07-27 Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for（渴望） a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end. Love is a telephone which is seldom program-controlled or di...

10-03-03 Vast amounts of telephone and e-mail data held in Germany must be deleted, the country's highest court has ruled. 德国最高法院裁定，通信公司存储的大量通讯、邮件数据必须被删除。 Germany's data centres hold untold terabytes of telecoms information The...

09-12-16 Talking on the Telephone Each Sunday the minister called the children to the front of the church while he told them a story. Once he brought a telephone to better illustrate the idea of prayer. You talk to people on the telephone and don't see them...

09-09-15 The Australian government has strengthened its demand for the country's biggest telephone company, Telstra, to break up. 澳大利亚政府要求国家最大的电话公司Telstra业务分离。 Telstra's fixed line revenue is dropping Telstra is being asked to split its...