over the telephone

基本解释

Interviews were carried out over the telephone, via e-mail or fax or face to face in four cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan.
此次调查主要通过电话、电子邮件、传真以及面对面的形式进行，调查地点包括北京、上海、广州和武汉四个城市。
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Maybe you’re an independent contractor and handle most of your daily affairs over the telephone and/or internet.
或许你是个独立的承包商，每天在家坐着用电话或者网络遥控自己的一切工作事务。
Maybe you’re an independent contractor and handle most of your daily affairs over the telephone and/or internet.
也许你是一个用电话或者网络处理日常事务的独立的执行者；

"The four telephone surveys have reported less than one percent of the respondents had watched TV Marti over the past week.
Look out!" Some ten paces away Lolita through a glass at a telephone booth, membranous god still with us, cupping the tube confidentially, hunched over it, slit her eyes at me, turned away with her treasure, hurriedly hang up and walked out with a flourish.
注意！“十步开外洛丽塔透过电话间的玻璃正用手,握着话筒，万分信赖的说着什么，她的目光扫到我，拿着她的宝贝转过身去，急忙挂上，一个戏剧性的夸张动作，走了出来。
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And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.
美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。
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At the moment, trading is conducted over the telephone, but may eventually be done at computer terminals.
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