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

没有妇女，就没有了接线员，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.

接线员们在一片混乱中搜集到的投票结果往往错误百出。

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年的接线员能保持它持续上了发条。

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，连警察局都没有直急诊室的，所以他们不得不过夜间接线员接。

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，接线员打断了她的，说有一个找默里的紧急。

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

接线员可以将转接到专业人士那里，他们可以接收新的病例并提供必要的治疗。

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

妇女从事秘书、护士、接线员和教师的工作。

By 1950, there were more than a million of them in the U.S. alone.

截至1950年，仅在美国一地，接线员就已过百万人。

911 calls that dispatchers don't hear every day.

911报警，接线员每日鲜闻。

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.

这是因为接听露丝的接线员没有遵守程序，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.

--我们确实喜欢过接线员转接， 这样就不会对收费产生误解， 我相信你能理解。

The operator on the phone knew, too, that the only way I was going to make it through that is if I stayed calm.

那头的接线员也明白，我唯一能挺过这一关的办法就是保持冷静。

You can get better at speaking, ordering a cup of coffee, talking to an operator on a customer service phone call.

你可以过说、点一杯咖啡、与客服中的接线员交谈来提升自己。

And an 18-year-old, a switchboard operator at the FBI, who was found murdered with a pair of scissors in her apartment.

一名18岁的联邦调查局接线员在她的公寓里被发现遇害，凶器是一对剪刀。

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，后来她是一名接线员。

The company wants to hire a proficient telephone operator.

公司想聘请一位熟练的接线员。

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

我走到前， 拨了接线员的， 告诉了她洛林夫妇的号码。

A Puerto Rican from the Bronx, she'd been raised mostly by her mom, a telephone operator who eventually earned her nurse's license, after her father—a tradesman with a third-grade education—died when Sonia was just nine years old.

她是来自布朗克斯的波多黎各人，主要由她的母亲抚养长大，她的母亲是一名接线员，在她的父亲（一位受过三年级教育的商人）去世后，她最终获得了护士执照。

Call now, operators are standing by.

现在就打吧 接线员们都在等着呢。