the central part of a phone system used by a company, etc., where phone calls are answered and put through (= connected) to the appropriate person or department; the people who work this equipment (电话的)交换机,交换台, 总机 a switchboard operator 交换台接线员 Call the switchboard and ask for extension 410. 你先打电话到总机,然后要求转分机 410。 Hundreds of fans jammed the switchboard for over an hour. 在一个多小时里,好几百个崇拜者打去电话,交换台应接不暇。 The BBC switchboard was jammed with furious calls. 英国广播公司总机被愤怒的投诉电话弄得应接不暇。 the girl on the switchboard 总机女接线员
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- telephone
- call
- ring
- flood
- …
- light up
- operator
- on a/the switchboard
- through a/the switchboard