The platoon radio telephone operator says he's changed since then. He's left the Army.

这位排里的无线电话务员称他自那时起发生了变化。他离开了军队。

You no longer need local telephone operators.

需要当地的电话接线员。

Women took jobs  as secretaries, nurses, telephone operators, and teachers.

妇女从事秘书、护士、电话接线员和教师的工作。

A telephone operator saw all of this from the telephone booth.

一名电话接线员从公用电话间看到这一切。

The telephone operator stays at the switchboard, warning of the forest fire or the flood that is sweeping down upon the people.

电话报务员会待在总机旁，对侵扰民众的森林大火或洪水发出警告。

She also worked as a nanny for a rich family, and later She was a telephone operator.

她还为一个富裕的家庭做过保，她是一名电话接线员。

But the telephone operator job was not just the way a huge number of women made a living.

但电话接线员的工作仅仅是大量女性的谋生方式。

The first is the obvious one: women who were working as telephone operators, and then lost that job.

第一个是显而易见的：担任电话接线员的女性，然失去了这份工作。

There were women who lost that telephone operator job and never found work that paid as much.

有些女性失去了电话接线员的工作，却也没有找到薪水如此高的工作。

We can then say, okay, a telephone operator in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1920, what was that woman doing in 1930?

然我们可以说，好吧，1920 年爱荷华州迪比克的一位电话接线员，那个女人在 1930 年在做什么？

Even after this milestone, the number of American telephone operators continued to grow, peaking in the mid-20th century at around 350,000. The occupation did not (mostly) disappear until the 1980s, nine decades after automation was invented.

即使在这一里程碑之， 美国电话接线员的数量仍在继续增长，在 20 世纪中叶达到顶峰， 约为 350,000。 直到 1980 年代，也就是自动化发明九年， 这项职业才（大部分）消失。