1. (电话的)交换台，总台,总机
A switchboard is a place in a large office or business where all the telephone calls are connected.
e.g. He asked to be connected to the central switchboard at London University...
他要求转接到伦敦大学的电话总机。
e.g. The switchboard operator was the hotel owner's wife.
电话总台的接线员是旅馆老板的妻子。
1. switchboard
1. A switchboard operator at the hotel told AP that security had been tightened but she would not say whether Kim was expected.
2. The best way to check whether an agency's claim is genuine is by calling the named university's switchboard.
3. The switchboard was jammed for hours after police published unedited pictures of the main suspect.
noun
1. telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords
Synonym: patchboard plugboard