She hunched over the desk, telephone cradled at her neck.

【cradle】伏在桌上，脖子上夹着电话听筒。

Soundlessly, she mimed picking up a phone and speaking into it.

【mime】无声地比画着拿起电话听筒说话的样子。

As she put down the phone, her brain was working overtime.

【overtime】放下电话听筒，飞快地开动脑筋。

The Today show sleuthing found that receivers could be three times as nasty as they should be.

节目组的调查员发现酒店电话的听筒有时会比正常情况脏三倍。

Grant shook himself and picked up the telephone receiver.

格兰摇了摇头，拿起电话听筒。

She laid her hand tentatively on the telephone-receiver.

性地将手放在电话听筒上。

Come, Maw Maw, let's go get your tools for my phone jack.

快来 曾奶奶 去给我个电话听筒。

I tried to call. The phone must have been off the hook.

我打过电话 听筒肯定没挂上。

" THERE IS NO HARRY POTTER HERE! " he roared, now holding the receiver at arm's length, as though frightened it might explode.

“这里没有什么哈利波! ”他吼道，现在他手上握的电话听筒离他有一臂之遥，好像怕听筒会爆炸似的。

Allie picks up the handset of the telephone on the desk here in the convent room overlooking the lake.

艾莉拿起桌子上的电话听筒, 这里是修道院房间, 可以俯瞰湖泊。

The man shook his head, pressed a receiver phone against his ear.

男人摇摇头，将听筒电话贴在耳边。

As soon as I put down the receiver, the phone rang again.

我刚放下听筒，电话又响了。

In a cluttered office lined with old books, the old man hunched over his desk, clutching a phone receiver in his arthritic hand.

在一个杂乱无章的办公室里, 摆满了旧书, 老人蜷缩在桌子上, 用他患关节炎的手抓着电话听筒。

Sitting at a desk in a large office building in New York, Lord Northcliffe took up two telephone receivers and placed one at each ear.

诺斯克利夫勋爵坐在纽约一座大型办公楼的办公桌前，拿起两个电话听筒，分别放在两只耳朵上。

Ron was yelling so loudly that Uncle Vernon jumped and held the receiver a foot away from his ear, staring at it with an expression of mingled fury and alarm.

罗恩使劲地嚷，弗农姨父为此吓了一跳，把电话听筒拿到离他的耳朵足有一-2-英尺远的地方，瞪眼看着它，一脸既是狂怒又是惊骇的表情。

" To take the phone off the hook" means to remove the receiver from the main part of the phone so that no one can call you.

” “To take the phone off the hook” 意思是把听筒从电话主体上取下来， 这样就没人可以打电话给你了。

Well, Paolo " puts down the receiver, " meaning he puts the receiver back on the main part of the phone to hang it up, and then the phone rings again.

好吧，保罗“放下听筒”，意思是他把听筒放回电话主体上挂断电话， 然后电话又响了。

It was on March 10, 1876, that Watson, in a distant room, picked up the first telephone receiver and heard these words, the first that had ever passed over a magnetized wire, " Come here, Watson; I want you" .

1876 年 3 月 10 日，华生在一个遥远的房间里拿起第一个电话听筒，听到了这些话，这是有史以来第一个通过磁化线传递的话：“华生，过来，我要你”。

Well, you know, I would have called, but I lost your phone number, and then my mom locked me out of the house, so I couldn't find it, and then I tried to find a pay phone, and the receiver was cut off.

好吧，你知道，我本来会打电话的，但是我弄丢了你的电话号码， 然后我妈妈把我锁在屋子外面，所以我找不到它， 然后我图找到一个公用电话，但听筒是隔断。