Without women, the telephone system crashed without switchboard operators, and newspapers couldn't publish without typesetters.

没有妇女，就没有了线员，系统瘫痪；报纸也因为没有排字工而无法出版。

In the chaos, caucus results collected by phone operators were riddled with errors.

线员们在一片混乱中搜集到的投票结果往往错误百出。

Phone operators can direct callers to professionals who can take new cases and offer any necessary treatment.

线员可以将转到专业士那里，他们可以收新的病例并提供必要的治疗。

Murray's wife, Joyce, was on an overseas call when Jobs phoned, and the operator broke in saying it was an emergency.

乔布斯打到默里家的时候，默里的妻子乔伊斯正在打越洋，线员打断了她的，说有一个找默里的紧急。

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

妇女从事秘书、护士、线员和教师的工作。

The company wants to hire a proficient telephone operator.

公司想聘请一位熟练的线员。

You no longer need local telephone operators.

您不再需要当地的线员。

I went to the phone and dialed the operator and gave her the Lorings' phone number.

我走到前， 拨通了线员的， 告诉了她洛林夫妇的。

There is no direct line to the emergency room, apparently, even for police, so a night receptionist had to patch the call through.

显然，连警察局都没有直通急诊室的，所以他们不得不通过夜间线员通。

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

有些女性失去了线员的工作，却再也没有找到薪水如此高的工作。

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姆，后来她是一名线员。

Call now, operators are standing by.

现在就打吧 线员们都在等着呢。

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

但线员的工作不仅仅是大量女性的谋生方式。

What Gross and Feigenbaum did with their telephone-operator study is show this process in concrete detail, with names and dates.

格罗斯和费根鲍姆在线员研究中所做的就是用姓名和日期来具体展示这一过程。

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：担任线员的女性，然后失去了这份工作。

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

然后我们可以说，好吧，1920 年爱荷华州迪比克的一位线员，那个女在 1930 年在做什么？

At least we can mark the exact time it happened to us, thanks to my new watch, which only a switchboard operator from the 1950s could keep wound.

但至少我们可以记录下浪漫死去的确切时间呢，多亏了你送我这手表，一只只有1950年的超忙线员能保持它持续上了发条。

This is because the operator who took Ruth's call did not follow procedure, including not getting her address immediately for the police to use.

这是因为听露丝的线员没有遵守程序，包括没有立即获取她的地址供警方使用。

We do like to route the calls through the operator and then there can be no misunderstanding about the charges, I'm sure you understand.

--我们确实喜欢通过线员转， 这样就不会对收费产生误解， 我相信你能理解。

More modern examples include telephone switchboard operators being replaced with automatic switchboards in 1960, and robotic arms replacing human painters in car factories in the 1980s.

更现代的例子包括 1960 年代总机线员被自动总机取代，以及 1980 年代汽车工厂中机械臂取代类油漆工。