I would dial the tone... beep, boop, bap!

我想来调那个音调... 哔 不 叭!

She could pick up the telephone and tell you that the dial tone was a major third.

她可以接起电话，告诉你拨号音是大三度音。

The soft hum of the dial tone that was always there.

拨号音的柔和嗡嗡声始终存在。

Sometimes I'd hug my phone up close and listen to the dial tone.

有时我会紧紧地抱着手机，听拨号音。

Suddenly a ring for my desk phone jolted me back to reality and this was back at a time when phones were physical bells and dial tones still existed.

突然，我桌上的电话铃声把我拉回了现实。那时的电话都有真正的电铃，拨电话的时候也会有声音。

" Bring him home, " Dad said. " Your mother can handle it" . Then: the dull drone of a dial tone. He'd hung up.

" 带他回家，" 爸爸说，" 你母亲能处理。" 接着是一阵单调的嘟嘟声。他挂了电话。

Speaker B: I physically took the handset receiver away from my ear and placed it on the weight-triggered switch that cuts off my landline's dial tone.

发言者 B：我把听筒从耳朵上拿下来，放在重量触发的开关上， 切断固定电话的拨号音。