Computer keyboard, mouse and telephone dial are home to 400 times as many microorganisms as the toilet bowl.

电脑键盘、鼠标以及电话拨号盘上的微生物数量是厕所坐便器的400倍。

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The telephone dial didn't appear until 1919, when the first group of self-designated "user interface scientists" at Western Electric considered what the most intuitive form should be.

电话拨号盘直到1919年才出现，那时西方电气公司(Western Electric)首批自命的“用户界面科学家”认真研究什么才是最直觉的形态。

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The China Mobile GRPS wireless communication technology was adopted instead of the routine telephone dial mode in the collection and transmission of observation data of 22 automatic weather stations.

广东省中山市气象局引进中国移动通信公司的GRPS无线业务通讯技术，取代常规电话拨号方式，用于完成中尺度灾害性天气监测网中22个自动气象站观测资料的采集和传输。

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Punch the numbers into a telephone dial pad in a phone booth outside the bar, and a concealed door swings open to reveal a classic cocktail joint that swaggers with the decadence of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.

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They each had a balcony, a spectacular view, iced water on tap and a direct-dial telephone.

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His office containing such tools of his time as an Underwood typewriter, metal card-file drawers and a dial telephone was supposedly walled off when the museum did some renovating.

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