The nerves act very much like telegraph wires, for they carry messages to the brain which make us feel, and see, and hear.

它们能够向大脑传递信息, 从而让我们感觉、看到、听到周围的世界。

By 1854, there were 23,000 miles of telegraph wire in operation.

到 1854 年，有 23,000 英里的电报线投入使用。

They walked along the edge of the line, beneath the telegraph wires, to the station.

他们沿着电线的边缘，在电报线下面走到车站。

His magnetized telegraph wire stretched from one room to another located in a remote part of the building.

他的磁化电报线从一个房间延伸到位于建筑物偏远部分的另一个房间。

They sent telegrams  ordering Jameson to abort - but Jameson's men had already cut the telegraph wires south.

他们发电报命令詹姆森中止——但詹姆森的人已经切断了南方的电报线。

But they had made a sortie into Jonesboro, burned the depot, cut the telegraph wires and torn up three miles of track before they retreated.

可是他们曾经攻入琼斯博罗，撤退之前烧毁了那里的车站，割断了电线，掀翻了三英里铁轨。

But running over hill and dale after a telegraph wire for next to nothing wages, 'tis no job that for Brede.

但是为了几乎没有工资而在电线后跑遍山丘和山谷， 这对 Brede 来说不是工作。

Edison found a way of sending up to four messages simultaneously – that is, at the same time – across a telegraph wire.

爱迪生找到了一种通过电报线同时（即同时）发送最多四条消息的方法。

However, Bell, as happens often to inventors, got bored of the idea of just inventing ways of sending more messages across the telegraph wire.

然而， 正如发明家经常遇到的那样，贝尔对仅仅发明通过电报线发送更多信息的方法的想法感到厌烦。

Brede looks away hurriedly, fully aware now of what is the matter; he glances up at the telegraph wires and seems to be whistling.

Brede 赶紧把目光移开， 现在完全意识到发生了什么事； 他抬头看了看电报线， 似乎在吹口哨。

But Brede is strangely full of zeal in his duty now, he keeps on looking at the telegraph wires, and whistling all the time.

但布雷德现在对自己的职责充满了奇怪的热情， 他一直盯着电线看， 一直吹着口哨。

One day Watson accidentally plucked a piece of clock wire that lay near this telegraph wire, and Bell, working in another room, heard the twang.

一天，华生不小心拔掉了一根放在这根电报线附近的时钟线， 而在另一个房间工作的贝尔听到了声音。

One theory is people thought the telegraph wires looked like the wires they use to train grapevines, so when they got a new message they'd say they heard it through the grapevine, or on the grapevine.

一种理论是，人们认为电报线看起来像他们用来牵引葡萄藤的线，所以当他们得到一个新消息时，他们会说他们是通过葡萄藤听到的（通过小道消息）可以用 through 或者 on。

Pressing a letter on one teletype keyboard would cause a signal to be sent, over telegraph wires, to a teletype machine on the other end, which would then electromechanically type that letter.

在一个电传打字机键盘上按下一个字母会导致信号通过电报线发送到另一端的电传打字机，然后电传打字机将以机电方式打出该字母。

Zalman Simmons, an inventor and founder of the Beautyrest mattress company, needed to get to the top of Pike's Peak to check on one of his latest creations, insulators for telegraph wires.

Beautyrest 床垫公司的发明家和创始人扎尔曼·西蒙斯 (Zalman Simmons) 需要登上派克峰 (Pike's Peak) 的山顶，检查他的最新发明之一——电报线的绝缘体。