telegraph cable

基本解释

Then, in 1899, a telegraph cable connecting Britain to Cape Town came ashore amid the jagged rocks of Comfortless Cove.
然后，在1899年，一条连接不列颠岛与开普敦的电报电缆在礁石嶙峋的坎福特湾（Comfortless Cove）上岸。
The first time that the question “What is at the bottom of the oceans?” had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
当铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的海底电报光缆的时候，出于商业动机，人们第一次不得不回答这个问题“海底是什么东西”。
The first time that the question "What is at the bottom of the oceans?" had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
“海底有什么？”这个问题第一次必须加以回答是在考虑铺设从欧洲到美国的电报电缆的时候，而且具有商业意义。