1·How long will the connection of the telephone take?
接通电话需要多长时间呢？
2·"I think I hear the telephone ringing."—"Okay, I can take a hint."
“我想我听见了电话在响。”—“好的，我明白你的意思。”
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Take two cases: since the tsunami, Sri Lanka's largest telephone company has started an early-warning system which would send SMS messages to every mobile phone in an area at risk of flooding.
举两个事例：海啸发生以来，斯里兰卡最大的电话公司已经启动了一个预警系统，后者将向处于洪水泛滥危险区域内的每一部移动电话发送短消息。
4·Take telephone messages completely and accurately.
完整且准确地记录电话留言。
5·Indeed, it may be that the whole idea of a telephone comes to be seen as an anachronism, as personal digital devices take on a bewildering range of new functions.
随着个人数字设备有了一系列令人眼花缭乱的新功能，电话这一概念终会完全过时也毫不奇怪。
6·"I took a pan to a red telephone kiosk down the road, sat on it, hoping and praying no one would come along and take me off to a nut house," he said.
他说：“我带坐便器去另外一个路边红色电话亭，坐在上面，心里默默祈祷千万别有人过来，把我送进精神病院。”
7·As mobile phones and tablets take over from desk-bound computers, marketers are no longer content to classify consumers merely by their postal codes or telephone area codes.
在手机和平板电脑开始取代台式电脑时，制造商们再也不满足仅凭邮政编码或者区号来将消费者分类。
8·Please hold my telephone calls and just take a message. I can call back later.
请别挂断我的电话，先留个言，我一会儿会再打来的。
9·I hired a few people to take orders over telephone and a few more to fulfill them.
我雇了些人接电话订单，还有一些人负责填单。
10·That means they will not look at their email, they will not take telephone calls.
那意味着，他们不会看邮件，不会打电话。