telephone switchboard

基本解释

Will you cover for me at the telephone switchboard while I run out to post a letter?
你可否在电话交换台那儿暂且替我应付一下?我跑出去寄一封信。
dict.cn
Operate telephone switchboard to answer, screen, and forward calls, providing information, taking messages and scheduling appointments.
负责接听公司电话总机和转接电话，提供并转达相关信息，安排预约。
Here he oversaw a staff of technicians who watched visual monitors, computer readouts, and a telephone switchboard that kept him in contact with the many security personnel he commanded.
在这里他监督所有技术人员监视着屏幕，电脑输出以及电话总机，并与所有他手下的安全人员保持联系。

Government pages should also be in your telephone book and switchboard operator will connect you directly with your desired political potentate in Congress.
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When computerized dialing systems were introduced, they replaced the need for manual telephone switchboards and, consequently, the switchboard operators that ran them.
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