Where are the pay phones?

付费电话在什么地方？

There aren't any pay phones on Ninth Avenue…

第几大道没有投币电话。

At some point, you probably stopped to wonder where all the pay phones had gone.

有时候，你会停下来想，那些公用电话全都去哪啦？

One thing is for sure, though: Unlike cell phones displacing pay phones, Twitter hasn't replaced my social-networking activity - it enhances it.

不过有一件事是确定的：与手机取代公用电话不同，Twitter并没有取代我的社会网络活动—相反它起到了促进的作用。

One day you think it's silly to walk around with an expensive phone when there are all these public pay phones, home phones, and office phones at your disposal.

有一天您发现拿着一部昂贵的手机到处走是一件很愚蠢的事，因为到处都有公共电话亭、住宅电话和办公电话，您可以方便使用。

Credit cards matter a lot less than before. We usually pay with smart phones now.

信用卡远不如以前要紧了。我们现在通常用智能手机付款。

People in China may pay with WeChat (微信) on the phones.

在中国，人们可能使用微信支付。

The Casio comes closest to holding its own against phones — for photo enthusiasts willing to pay more.

卡西欧在四家厂商中最依赖手机——因为手机爱好者愿意付更多钱。

The networks can take a few mavericks that are willing to pay high prices, seek out obscure sales channels, or risk turning their phones into doorstops through jailbreaking.

总有一些人，愿意花高价从一些隐蔽的渠道购买手机，愿意冒着自己的手机变成砖头的危险去破解手机。 移动网络能够承受得起一些这样的用户。

Although Skype's service has become so well-known that its name has become a verb, it has struggled to get users to pay for premium services such as calls to mobile phones.

尽管Skype的相关服务已经变得如此广为人知以至于它的名字现已被当作动词来使用，而它也在努力让用户为诸如移动电话呼叫服务的额外服务付款。

For example, the company TabbedOut has created a service that allows people to use their smart phones to open, review, and pay tabs.

例如，Tabbe dOut公司创建了一种服务来允许人们使用其智能手机打开、查看和支付账单。

Dorcent says he likes that customers can pay from their phones straight to his.

Dorcent说他喜欢这种交易方式，客户可以用他们的手机直接付款。

Some of us now use our phones to decide where to eat, what price to pay, who to date and how to get there.

我们中确实有一些人现在是用手机来决定去哪吃饭，要付多少钱，和谁约会以及怎么去那。

As a rule, teenagers have phones on pay as you go.

作为一项规定，青少年买手机都是现买现付。

Those caught using such cell phones illegally were reportedly arrested and required to pay a fine or face charges of espionage, or harsher punishments.

据报道那些被逮到非法使用手机的人将会被逮捕并被要求支付一笔罚金或者面临间谍罪的指控，甚至是更加严酷的惩罚。

A claim that "only India's 59 dollar-billionaires" are prospering rings false: anyway, many in the audience are too busy fiddling with their mobile phones to pay it much heed.

“印度只有59个亿万富翁”春风得意，这个断言绝对是个伪命题：不管怎样，很多听众忙于玩弄手机，对此不太关心。

The well-connected executive can use any number of voice-over-internet services to make free calls; but the rural poor, if they have phones at all, must pay high rates.

一个掌握了便捷联系方式的执行官可以使用网上声讯服务去拨打任意数量的免费电话。但是对于贫苦的农民，即使他们有电话的话，也要付高费用。

M: That's true. Some people pay too much attention to their mobile phones.

M：没错，有些人把太多注意力都放在手机上了。

Consumers will be able to pay for sandwiches, drinks and train tickets by placing their phones close to a reader similar to the Oyster card system on the London Underground.

届时，消费者们购买三明治、饮料和火车票时，只要将他们的手机靠近一个类似应用于伦敦地铁的“牡蛎卡”(Oyster card)系统的读取器，就可以付款。

They pay no utilities, have free access to the Internet on computers provided for them, along with fax machines, free cell and home phones and cable TV.

他们不用支付水电费，配置的电脑可以上网，还有传真机、免费手机、家用电话和有线电视。

In fact, neighbors now pay her 20 cents to charge their phones, although that business may soon evaporate: 63 families in Kiptusuri have recently installed their own solar power systems.

事实上，邻居们充一次电还给她20美分。不过这桩生意很快就没了：最近克普图速里有60个家庭安装了自家的太阳能发电装置。

Smart cards and mobile phones are quickly emerging as ways to pay with electronic cash

用智能卡与移动电话支付电子货币的方式，也就是，以智能卡与移动电话为媒介的电子货币支付方式

There is a pay phone just around the corner. Actually you can find public phones in almost all the big stores, hotels, restaurants and gasoline stations.

在街角处就有一个公用电话。事实上，在几乎所有的大型商场、饭店、餐馆和加油站都有公用电话。

"We hope the M9 has a better customer experience performance than Apple phones do. Otherwise, consumers will not pay more money to buy the phones," reasoned Yu.

“我们希望M9的客户体验性能比苹果手机更好，否则消费者不会多付钱买手机。”余说。

That's true. Some people pay too much attention to their mobile phones.

没错，有些人把太多注意力都放在手机上了。