- 1市話、室內電話、固網電話（對手機而言）。中國大陸較常說「座機」。
A landline is a telephone that works through wires in the ground and in the walls, not through a mobile phone in your pocket. People also say landline for the number of that phone, or for the whole wired service in a house. Today we mostly set it against a mobile: ‘Call me on the landline; the signal is bad here.’ Though actually the name is older than — a land line was first a wire that ran over land, as opposed to a cable under the sea. Now almost nobody is thinking of the ocean when they say it. It feels a little old-fashioned among young people, who may not have one at home, but offices, , and alarm systems still use them. In careful talk you may hear fixed line; in everyday English, landline is the usual word. It is not the internet cable, and it is not Wi-Fi, even though those also use ‘lines’ in a loose way.
組成land + line (the wire). First a line that ran over land; now the everyday opposite of a mobile phone.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
landlinenoun/ˈlændˌlaɪn/
- 1
A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
- The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.
- 2
A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not cellular or mobile.
- 3
That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).
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