You know, I grew up for a few years on rotary phones, and you hated them, right?

你知道，我成长期间有几年是用旋转拨号电话的，你讨厌它们，对吗？

The clerk has piles of papers, a rotary phone, and an adding machine on his desk.

办事员桌上有大叠大叠的文件、转盘式电话以及加法机。

But then it came down to dialing, and it was such a horrible experience. It was like an old rotary phone.

但接下来就是拨号了，那是一种非常可怕的经历。它就像一个老式的旋转拨号电话。

So my dad got tired of the long-distance bills, so he put a little lock on the phone — the rotary phone.

我爸爸不想支付那些长途话费账单，所以他给电话加了把小锁 —— 那种转盘拨号电话。

We would call it the rotary phone.

我们称之为旋转电话。

But the rule also hews to a possibly outdated tradition, like people who set their cellphone ringtone to sound like an old rotary phone.

但是法案还谈到一个可能过时的传统，比如有些人将手机铃声设置成听起来像摇式电话。

While the rotary phone isn't the best available technology today, your smart phone wouldn't exist without it.

虽然旋转电话不是当今可用的最佳技术，但没有它就没有您的智能手机。

The only reason these people buy touch-tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore.

这部分最后行动的人买按键电话的唯一原因是 因为他们再也买不到转盘电话了。

It's the difference between upgrading your mobile and clinging to your old rotary phone because you don't want to be wrong.

这是升级您的手机和坚持使用旧的旋转手机之间的区别，因为您不想犯错。

And for me, the common thread is that physical and virtual transportation because that's really what that rotary phone was for me are at the center of the innovation flywheel.

对于我来说，那些经历的共同点就是实体和虚拟的传输，因为当时转盘拨号电话对我的真正意义就是创新飞轮的中心。

So that was the thing that put the bullet in the head of that product, was we just couldn't make the rotary phone and text entry work, so then we had to go and look for another technology.

这就是我们产品的缺陷所在，我们无法让旋转拨号电话和文本输入正常工作，所以我们不得不去寻找另一种技术。