switchboard

名词 switchboard:

1. telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords
   同义词：patchboard, plugboard

1. Barbara will man the telephone switchboard till we get back.
   我们回来前由巴巴拉管理电话总机。
2. Do you remember to ask the switchboard to put my call through to the boardroom?
   你记住请总机把我的电话接到董事会的会议室？
3. The switchboard is manned twenty-four hours a day.
   电话总机是一天24小时由人操纵的。
4. One that announces, especially an electrical signaling device used in hotels or offices to indicate the sources of calls on a switchboard.
   信号器，示号器宣告物，尤指饭店或办公室中使用的一种电子信号装置，用来指示交换台上的呼叫信号来源