电报

On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph system was completed. This communication advancement would soon spell the end for the horses and their riders working for the Pony Express.

在1861年10月24日，美国架设完成全国第一个电报系统，并正式宣告为「小马快递」的马匹与骑士从此失业。

Pony Express disbanded. The telegraph took over.

驿马快信制度取消，取而代之的是电报。

A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house.

在担任传达的嬷嬷旁边，挂着一口声音非常洪亮全院都能听到的铜钟，通过各种不同的敲法，好象是种有声电报似的，来表达在物质生活中所应进行的全部活动，并且，在必要时，还可把修院里的这个或那个人找到会客室里去。

In November, 1906, the Qing government set up a Postal Department, in charge of water and rail transport as well as the mail, telephone, and telegraph.

清政府创办了一个邮政部门，当时还管电报，电话，铁路，水运。

Radio pratique only for container liner.

电报检疫仅适合集装箱班轮。

The inventors of weak current technology brought forth perhaps the least precedented invention of all time -- the telegraph.

这些弱电技术的发明者（我们现在要称其为黑客了）带给我们的，也许是史无前例的发明——电报。

Describes several telegraph systems, in many countries, that predate electrical telegraphs.

文中讲述了在电话之前许多国家的几种电报系统。

He sent her off a telegram announcing his immediate return to Queenstown.

他给她发出一份电报，说他立即返回昆斯敦。

How did people function in worlds with quill pens or connect with each other by Morse code and telegrams?

在那个用鹅毛笔或用莫尔斯电码和电报来交流的时代，社会是怎样运转的？

It was now the 30th of October, and on the following day the 'Rangoon was due at Singapore.

这事儿可是再容易也没有了，因为仰光号要在新加坡停留，新加坡和中国海岸有一条电报线可以联系。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。