電報

他收到一批電報。
   He received a batch of telegrams.

我收到一封從紐約來的電報。
   I received a cable from New York.

她發電報給舊金山的姑媽。
   She cabled her aunt in San Francisco.

父親囑我到達後發個電報。
   Father told me to cable when I arrived.

電報線像蜘蛛網似地由主樓向四面八方伸展。
   Telegraph wires radiate like cobwebs from the main building.

我得寫一份發往家裡的電報稿。
   I had to draft a cable home.

用普通文字傳送的電報,公文
   a message sent en clair

他收到大量表示感謝的電報和信件。
   He received a flood of grateful telegrams and letters.

"海底電報"一詞是混合語,半為拉丁語,半為希臘語。
   "Cablegram" is a hybrid; half the word is Latin and half is Greek.

這封電報要求立即回覆。
   The telegram asked for an instant reply.

請用電報傳送使用須知。
   Please message the instruction by cable.

我們試著用電報跟他們聯絡。
   We tried to reach them by cable.

我剛收到一份電報。
   I've just received a telegram.

她給父親打了許多電報。
   She had dispatched telegrams to her father.

我女兒昨天給我打了電報。
   My daughter telegrammed me yesterday.

消息以電報傳來。
   The news came by telegraph.

媽媽昨天打電報給我。
   Mother telegraphed me yesterday.

他打電報告訴我們他搭飛機來。
   He wired us that he would come by plane.