" Collection of this kind of telephone metadata from the telephone companies is not a violation of anyone's constitutional rights."

“这种从电话公司收集电话元数据的行为并未侵犯宪法规定的任何人的权利。”

He says proposals to govern the Internet as if it was a telephone company would interfere in many decisions, including pricing.

他说，把互联网当做电话公司来监管的提议将会干扰很多决定，包括定价。

Over the next few decades, telephone companies continued to develop the technology to make mobile phones smaller, more reliable, and eventually handheld.

在接下来的几十年里，电话公司继续研发技术，使移动电话更小、更可靠，并最终成为手持式电话。

Were they still working for the telephone company?

他们还在电话公司工作吗？

B. quit your job, stay at home, call the telephone company to make sure your phone works, and wait for him to call?

B. 辞去你的工作，呆在家里，打电话给公司确保你的电话畅通，等他打电话给你？

" Your allotted minutes" are the minutes that you are given by the telephone company.

“您分配的分钟数”是电话公司给您的分钟数。

And telephone company security ended up tracing it back to University of South Florida.

电话公司保安最终将其追溯到南佛罗里达大学。

For example, we talk about " phone service." The telephone company provides you with the service.

例如，我们说“电话服务”。电话公司为您提供服务。

Every month, the telephone company will send them a bill, and they have to pay it.

每个月， 电话公司都会寄给他们一张账单，他们必须支付。

He went out and started his own telephone company, that in some ways is still around.

他出去创办了自己的电话公司，在某些方面仍然存在。

If you are out in a very isolated area the telephone company may not have service there.

如果您在一个非常偏远的地区，电话公司可能在那里没有服务。

Then I got out of the Chrysler and went over towards the telephone company's little rustic building.

然后我下了克莱斯勒汽车， 朝电话公司的乡村小楼走去。

The French-owned telephone company Orange said last week it would withdraw from a deal with Israeli operator Partner.

法国拥有的电话公司 Orange 上周表示， 它将退出与以色列运营商 Partner 的交易。

You see, I was a secretary before I was married for a telephone company back when everyone was getting connected at the start of the war.

我结婚前是个秘书，是在一家电话公司，那是战争之初大家刚开始装电话的时候。

The new telephone company offered him $10,000 a year as chief inventor, but he replied that he could not invent to order.

新电话公司作为首席发明人每年提供 10,000 美元， 但他回答说他不能按订单发明。

Now, because some people don't like to have their information on Caller ID, you can ask the telephone company to block your Caller ID information.

现在， 因为有些人不喜欢在来电显示上显示他们的信息，您可以要求电话公司屏蔽您的来电显示信息。

The telephone company may send you a " bill" in the mail, a piece of paper telling you how much money you have to pay them for your telephone service.

。 电话公司可能会通过邮件向您发送“账单”，即一张纸，告诉您需要为电话服务支付多少钱。

So for example, your telephone company, you have a relationship with them – you pay them for your telephone service – they could call you and try to sell you things.

例如， 您的电话公司，您与他们有关系 - 您为电话服务付费 - 他们可以打电话给您并尝试向您推销东西。

" Service" means that you are able to use the phone, that you have the ability to send the electronic signals to the telephone company so that you can talk to people.

“服务” 意味着您可以使用电话，您可以向电话公司发送电子信号， 以便您可以与人通话。

Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store and stood at the elbows of the two important-looking men from the telephone company, who proceeded with utmost gravity, like priests at Communion, to wire up the telephone.

小店里，从电话公司来的两个人看上去像是很有身份的人，他们像圣餐仪式上的牧师一样，在极其严肃地接通电话，一些富有的村民径直走到店里，站在这两人旁边观看。