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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 23 Telephones
[00:04.78]Lesson 89 1  Dialogue
[00:11.05]STEVE:Hello.Can I speak to Pippa,please?
[00:13.27]喂!我可以找彼帕接电话吗?
[00:15.49]voice:There's no Pippa here.This is 8686087.
[00:19.51]这里没有彼帕这个人,这里的号码是8686087.
[00:23.54]STEVE:I'm sorry.I think I dialled the wrong number.
[00:25.82]对不起,我想是我拨错了电话号码.
[00:28.11]BOB:Hello.
[00:29.53]喂.
[00:30.96]STEVE:Hello.Is that Bob?
[00:32.84]喂,鲍勃吗?
[00:34.72]BOB:Yes,it is.
[00:36.04]是的,我是鲍勃.
[00:37.36]STEVE:Hi,this is Steve Is Pippa there?
[00:39.78]嗨,我是史蒂夫,彼帕在吗?
[00:42.21]BOB:Yes,she is.Would you like a word with her?
[00:44.29]是的,她在.你要和她说话吗?
[00:46.37]STEVE:Yes,please.
[00:47.69]是的,请叫她一下.
[00:49.01]BOB:Hold on.I'll go and get her.
[00:50.59]别挂上.我去叫她.
[00:52.17]STEVE:Pippa.
[00:53.39]彼帕.
[00:54.62]I called to ask you if you'd like to come to a lecture on Thursday evening
[00:57.70]我打电话是想问你是否愿意听星期四晚上的一个讲座.
[01:00.79]at the college.It's about the universe.
[01:03.15]讲座是关于宇宙的.
[01:05.52]The speaker's supposed to be excellent.
[01:07.50]报告人应该是很出色的.
[01:09.49]PIPPA:Just a minute.I'll see if I'm free.
[01:11.56]等一等.我看看是否有时间
[01:13.64]No,I'm not.I've already got something on that evening.
[01:16.56]不,我没有空.那天晚上我已经安排了别的事情.
[01:19.49]STEVE:What a pity!Never mind.
[01:23.57]We must get together some other time for a chat.
[01:25.90]真遗憾!不要紧.我们必须找个时间聚一聚,聊一聊.
[01:28.24]PIPPA:Yes,good idea.
[01:30.07]是个好主意.
[01:31.90]STEVE:I'll have to go now.Someone wants to use the phone.All the best.
[01:34.86]我得走了.有人要用电话.祝你一切都好.
[01:37.83]PIPPA:Bye.
[01:39.04]再见.
[01:40.26]Lesson 90 1 Reading comprehension
[01:52.01]Read the text to find answers to these questions:
[01:54.49]读课文回答问题:
[01:56.98]1 How was one telephone connected with another in the past?
[02:03.53]2 How is one telephone connected with another today?
[02:10.19]TELEPHONES
[02:13.07]How a telephone works is a question which not everyone can answer.
[02:16.59]电话是怎样工作的,这个问题并不是每个人都能回答.
[02:20.12]When you speak into the telephone,
[02:22.15]当你对着电话机说话时,
[02:24.17]the sound waves of your voice are turned into electrical signals.
[02:27.50]你声音的声波就变成了电信号.
[02:30.83]The signal is sent down a pair of wires to the receiving telephone.
[02:34.11]这个信号沿着两根导线被送到受话机上,
[02:37.39]There the electrical signal is changed back into sound.
[02:40.51]在那儿电信号又变回成了声音.
[02:43.63]The earliest telephones were not popular
[02:46.01]最早的电话并不受人欢迎
[02:48.39]and it took a long time before people began to hire or buy them.
[02:51.62]过了很久一段时间人们才开始租用或购买.
[02:54.86]At the beginning it was difficult to hear people over long distances.
[02:58.55]开始很难听到远方的人讲话的声音.
[03:02.23]The wires which carried the telephone conversations were thick,
[03:05.21]传送电话的导线很粗,很重,
[03:08.19]heavy and expensive.
[03:09.96]又很贵,
[03:11.74]In those days,to make a call,
[03:16.28]you had to wind a handle at the side of your telephone.
[03:19.31]那时,你要打电话就得转动电话机旁的摇柄.
[03:22.34]This produced enough electricity to make your call.
[03:25.02]这才会产生足够的电供你打电话.
[03:27.70]You called the operator and told her which number you wanted.
[03:30.73]你要叫通接线员,把你要的号码告诉她.
[03:33.76]The operator connected the two numbers
[03:35.98]接线员把两个号码接通,
[03:38.20]and made a note of the length of the telephone call and the charge.
[03:41.58]然后记下通话的时间和通话费.
[03:44.97]The first telephone directory was printed in a town in the USA in 1878.
[03:49.49]第一个电话号码薄是1879年在美国的一个城镇出版的.
[03:54.00]It was just one piece of paper,printed on one side.
[03:56.67]那只是一张纸,印在单面上.
[03:59.33]In 1877 there were only 2,600 telephones in the world.
[04:03.54]在1877年全世界只有2600部电话,
[04:07.75]By 1990 there were over 300 million.
[04:10.98]到了1990年就超过了3亿部了.
[04:14.22]There have been great advances in telephone equipment