For example, you look up a number in the telephone book, and before you dial, you repeat the number over and over.

例如，你在一本电话号码簿中查到一个号码，在你还没拨号之前，你得再三复习这一号码。

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Law of telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

电话定律：拨错电话号码时，那个号码从来不占线。

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Love is a telephone which, when you use it for the first time, makes you so nervous and excited that you either hold the receiver upside down or dial the wrong number.

爱情这部电话，第一次使用，会令你紧张、激动不已，不是拿倒了话筒就是拨错厂号码。

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Ostergaard demonstrated how a user can dial a telephone number from the keypad of a Palm and connect a cordless headset to a regular fixed-line desk phone.

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Last year, it established a direct-sales network in Germany allowing investors who are enticed by its advertisements to dial a local telephone number to purchase funds.

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Modeled after the information and e-commerce transactions available on the Web, the latest in information technology starts with a telephone number that you'll be able to dial to reach a computer that hears and guides your requests and answers them using voice-recognition technology.

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