There was a wrecked kite dangling from a telephone wire.

电话线上挂着一个晃来晃去的破风筝。

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If you have ever watched of an evening how the birds are sitting on a telephone wire, have you watched that?

如果你曾经观察傍晚鸟儿们是怎样坐在一根电话线上的，你观察过那个吗？

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"We can see several people going bald that might not know it at the moment," joked Wayne, 57, who works as a telephone company wire splicer.

现年57岁的韦恩开玩笑说：“我们可以看到某些人已经开始秃顶，而那时他们自己可能并不知道。” 韦恩是一家电话公司的电缆接线工。

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We sat there drinking lemonade, like an old married couple, watching the kids passing on bicycles, a squirrel scampering along a telephone wire.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

Yet there is clearly a huge opportunity, given the gap between the quality of Internet access most Americans enjoy at work (through high-speed direct connections) and at home (through a copper telephone wire).

ECONOMIST: Cable television

At one point, he tried to call the Poxley volunteer fire department, but the creosote pole that supported the telephone wire had already gone up like a torch, taking his service away.

NEWYORKER: Idols