Then, in 1899, a telegraph cable connecting Britain to Cape Town came ashore amid the jagged rocks of Comfortless Cove.

然后，在1899年，一条连接不列颠岛与开普敦的电报电缆在礁石嶙峋的坎福特湾（Comfortless Cove）上岸。

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Had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

这个问题第一次必须加以回答是在考虑铺设从欧洲到美国的电报电缆的时候，而且具有商业意义。

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The first time that the question 'what is at the bottom of the oceans' had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

第一次从商业价值的角度来回答海底有什么这个问题，是在有人建议铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的电报电缆的时候。

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Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Cable said the UK was not "inward looking" and welcomed ideas and talent.

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In 1866, a transatlantic cable laid by the steamer Great Eastern established reliable communication by telegraph between the United States and England.

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