Phone books have white, blue and yellow pages.
The white pages list people with phones by last name.
The blue pages contain numbers of city services, government
services and public services. Businesses and professional
services are listed in a special classified directory-the
Yellow Pages.
It is generally very easy to find a public telephone
in the developed countries. Public phones are located in
bus and railroad stations, airports, stores, hotels,
restaurants, gasoline stations, on numerous street corners
and in most office buildings. From a corner pay-call, you
pick up the phone, listen for a dial tone (a buzzing sound),
deposits a coin or coins (depending on the cost in the area)
and then dial the number.
A person-to-person call can only be accepted by the
particular person you are calling. Thus, if that person
is not there, you will not be charged. However,
person-to-person and collect calls are more expensive
than calls dialed directly because they involve the
additional labor cost of an operator. The person being
called pays for a " collect" call rather than by the
person making the call. If you make a long distance call
and get a wrong number, call the operator and explain
what happened. This means that you can make the call
again to the right number without having to pay more
money; or you can have the phone company mail you a
credit coupon that has the same value as the phone call.
电话
电话簿有白页、蓝页和黄页。白页刊登用户个人的电话号码,是按姓氏排列的。蓝页刊登市政机构、政府机构和公共服务的电话号码。黄页是商业和专业机构的分类电话号码。
想在发达国家找到一部公用电话是非常容易的。公用电话经常安装在以下场所:公共汽车站、火车站、飞机场、商店、旅馆、饭店、加油站、许多街角以及大多数的写字楼。 在街角的付费电话亭,你拿起电话,听到拨号声音(嗡嗡声),投入硬币(数量视地区而定),然后拨号。
叫人电话只能是你叫的那个人接听。所以,如果那个人不在,你就不需付费。叫人电话和对方付费的电话较自拨电话要贵一些,因为接线员得付出额外劳动。在对方付费的电话中,交钱的是接听电话的人而非打电话的人。 如果你打长途时拨错了电话号码,可以给接线员打电话解释一下情况,你就可以再打正确的号码而不用另外付费;你也可以让电话公司寄给你退回电话费用的付款证。
telephone booth ;telephone box;telephone kiosk电话间
telephone exchange 电话局
telephone, phone 电话,电话机
manual telephone 人工电话
automatic telephone 自动电话
desk phone 台式电话
wall phone 墙上电话
touch phone按键式电话
dial phone拨盘式电话
interior phone内线电话
outside phone外线电话
special line专线电话
emergency call紧急电话
hot line热线电话
toll-free call; 800 number 免费电话
interphone 内部电话,对讲机
combined set; mobile phone手机
beeper寻呼机;BP机
receiver, earpiece 听筒
hook 听筒挂叉
dial 号码盘
hammer 槌
switch 开关,断路器
plug 销
counter, meter 计数器
circuit 电路
frequency 音频
connection, connexion 连接
disconnection, discon-nexion 断开
selector 选择器