telephone operator

基本解釋

He dialed the telephone operator.
他撥號(hào)給了電話縂機(jī).
In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year.
1937年，萊辛遷居索爾玆伯裡，做了一年的電話接線員。
Hello, I'm calling in answer to your advertisement in yesterday's Yang Cheng Evening News for an English telephone operator.
你好，我打電話來是想應(yīng)聘你們昨天在《羊城晚報(bào)》登廣告招聘的英語話務(wù)員一職。
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One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.

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