Did you pay your cable bill? Ugh, you sound just like the cable company.

你交了有线电视费没？呃，你是收有线电视费的？

I couldn't get through to the cable company.

给有线电视公司打电话打不通。

The standard question would be, “Did the cable company call yet? ”

标准的问句是，“Did the cable company call yet？”

The cable company call yet? A crew is supposed to be here by 3 this afternoon.

电缆公司打电话来了吗？工作人员今天下午3点应该到这里。

You can also try negotiating with cable companies, internet providers, utilities, and, if you rent, your landlord.

你也可以尝试与有线电视公司、互联网提供商、公用事业机构协商，如果你租房，还可以和房东谈谈。

In a few years, she successfully expanded the company to include newspaper, magazine, broadcast and cable companies.

几年后，她成功地将公司扩展到报纸、杂志、广播和有线电视公司。

You can also try negotiating with cable companies, internet providers, utilities, and if you rent, maybe your landlord.

你也可以尝试与有线电视公司、互联网提供商、公用事业机构协商，如果你租房，还可以和房东谈谈。

Here, the auxiliary verb “do” was dropped from the start of the question, “The cable company call yet? ”

在这里，省去了句首的助动词 do，“The cable company call yet？”

I called up the cable company and I said, " Hello, I'd like cable, " and they put in cable.

我打给有线电视公司说，" 我想装有线电视" ，然后他们就派人来装啦。

He persuaded the cable companies to pay for a public-service channel via a levy based on the number of their subscribers.

他游说各地的有线电视公司通过向用户缴的订费来支付公益频道。

Cable companies and content providers almost universally hate this plan.

有线电视公司和内容提供商几乎普遍讨厌这个计划。

Political pressure over a program that questioned Soviet strategy during World War II led cable companies to drop the channel in 2014.

这家电视台因为一档质疑二战时苏联政策的节目在政府的施压下于2014年被迫关闭。

So most consumers just rent whatever the cable company offers. Because we have to. That means companies have little incentive to innovate.

因此，有线电视运营商那里提供什么设备，大部分的用户也就租用什么设备。因为我们不得不这么做。也就是说，这些公司之间几乎没有任何创新的驱动力。

Sheldon, what if he gets his Internet from his cable company? He could lose his HBO and all their delightful original programming.

谢尔顿 要是他是从有线电视公司连接互联网的怎么办 他会失去他的HBO有线电视和所有好看的原创电视节目。

By nineteen seventy, it was the country’s largest cable company.

到 19 世纪 70 年代， 它已成为该国最大的有线电视公司。

Hey, you called the cable company?

嘿，你给有线公司打电话了吗？

Come on, what's going on? I hate this cable company.

拜托，怎么搞的？ 我恨这个有线电视公司。

This new pay-TV channel sends signals via satellite to cable companies.

【signal】这个新的付费电视频道通过卫星把讯号发送到有线电视公司。

This leads us to the second proposal and this is the one favored by the cable companies.

这使我们想到了第二个提案，这是有线电视公司青睐的提案。

I'll check out whether my local cable company or satellite service has better packages and make a decision this weekend.

我将查看我当地的有线电视公司或卫星服务是否有更好的套餐， 并在本周末做出决定。