by the phone

基本解释

Together, we waited by the phone until sundown. The phone never rang.
我们在电话旁边一直等到太阳下山，都没有等到任何电话。
After networking, sending resumes, and waiting patiently by the phone, all your hard workhas paid off with an invitation to interview.
上网、发简历、在电话前的耐心等待之后，所有这些努力工作都因为一场面试有了回报。
Going back to our real-world analogy, the framework maintained by the phone company will require some sort of registry (phone book) so that other participants can be located.
再回到我们的现实类比法中，电话公司保留的框架需要某种注册（电话薄）才能定位其他参与者。

Charities commonly raise money by mail, over the phone or on the Internet.
If the experimenter gives you instructions by phone, you're less likely to do it.
如果实验者通过电话指示你电击，你电击的可能性就减少。
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There are some thousand pages in this book, and I the human could certainly find Mike Smith every easily, very correctly by starting, if you'll simulate from the front of the phone book on page 1, looking for Mike Smith.
这本书有上千页，如果从电话薄的第一页开始找起，我当然能轻松且准确地找到,每一个叫Mike，Smith的人。
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As Obama waited by the phone for a response from the Speaker, Cantor struck.
NEWYORKER: The House of Pain