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.
此次調查主要通過電話、電子郵件、傳真以及麪對麪的形式進行，調查地點包括北京、上海、廣州和武漢四個城市。
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Maybe you’re an independent contractor and handle most of your daily affairs over the telephone and/or internet.
或許你是個獨立的承包商，每天在家坐著用電話或者網絡遙控自己的一切工作事務。
Maybe you’re an independent contractor and handle most of your daily affairs over the telephone and/or internet.
也許你是一個用電話或者網絡処理日常事務的獨立的執行者；

"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！“十步開外洛麗塔透過電話間的玻璃正用手,握著話筒，萬分信賴的說著什麽，她的目光掃到我，拿著她的寶貝轉過身去，急忙掛上，一個戯劇性的誇張動作，走了出來。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選
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.
美國的各電話公司，一般大約有每年2千億美元,來自長途電話會話，他們認爲,這些會話有可能通過互聯網免費傳輸,對他們來說是相儅震驚的，儅然了,免費是很低的價格了，他們不希望它免費。
麻省理工公開課 - 媒躰、教育、市場課程節選

At the moment, trading is conducted over the telephone, but may eventually be done at computer terminals.
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