1. The problem is its national phone system is a rusting antique that dates from the l930s.
    问题是，它的国内电话系统是一堆生了锈的20世纪30年代的老古董。

2. To partially overcome the problem of funds and to speed the import of Western technology, Hungary sold a 30% stake in its national phone company to two Western companies.
    为了部分地解决资金问题, 加速输入西方技术，匈牙利将国有电话公司30%的股权出售给了两家西方公司。

3. To further reduce the waiting list for phones, Hungary has leased rights to a Dutch -Scandinavian group of companies to build and operate what it says will be one of the most advanced digital mobile phone systems in the world.
    为进一步减少电话待装户，匈牙利已将权利出租给一家荷兰-斯堪的纳维亚企业集团，来建造并经营一个据说是世界上最先进的数字移动电话系统。

4. That's partly because Latin American customers talk two to four times as long on the phone as people in North America.
    产生这种情况的部分原因是拉丁美洲客户的通话时间是北美洲人的二至四倍。

5. That leaves private industry — computer, phone, and cable companies — to move into the vacuum left by the government's absence.
    这就使得私人企业 -- 电脑公司、电话公司、有线电视公司 -- 得以填补由于政府无法顾及所留下的空缺。

6. He went into the phone booth and dialed the number.
    他走进电话亭拨了号码。

7. His colleague picked up the phone at a table behind them.
    他的同事拿起身后桌上的电话。

8. Here's my home phone.
    这是我家里的电话。

9. He makes time every day to listen to his seven-year-old son play the piano — even if it is no more than a few minutes during a phone call while he is away at a conference.
    他每天都挤出时间来听7岁的儿子弹钢琴，既使在他外出开会时，也要通过电话听几分钟。

10. "Soon she'll be dating and going out but I don't want her wasting her time talking on the phone and watching TV.
    "用不了多久，她就会去约会，会走出这个家，可我不想她老是打电话，看电视，浪费时间。