Many of these inventions—including sound motion pictures and stereo recording, along with 23,00 other patents—come from AT&T Bell Laboratories founded in 1925. John Davis is executive director of Bell Laboratories Consumer Products Division. He says, as we move into the 1900s, we can expect even greater flexibility in telecommunications.
这些发明当中有许多项发明——包括有声电影和立体声录音，随同23，000项其他专利——来自1925年建立的AT&T贝尔实验室。约翰·戴维斯是贝尔实验室消费产品部执行主任。他说，当我们进入90年代的时候，可以预期电信将具有更大的灵活性。

It is hard to imagine a world without the telephone. Our lives have grown to depend on computers linked into phone lines to do our shopping, our banking, or helping us through a typical day work.
很难想象没有电话的世界是什么样子。我们的生活已变得要依靠把电脑同电话线连接在一起来购物、办理银行存款、取款手续，或者帮助我们完成一天的工作了。

When you walk into your office, the first thing you do is to turn on the computer and pull up your electronic mail for the day. Of course, your electronic mail does not come in through the mailbox, bit comes in through telephone lines. The nice thing is you can turn them around by simply forwarding back without having to worry about addressing or stamping or enveloping the information to the person that sent you the message.
当你走进办公室后所做的第一件事就是把电脑打开，提取出当天的电子信件。当然，你的电子信件不是通过邮箱送进来的，而是通过电话线输送进来的。好处是，你只需向回输送就能掉转方向把信息发给来信者，而不用费事写地址，贴邮票，装信封。

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