免提hands-free
免提耳机hands-free earpiece or headset
我用了震机。
I had it on vibrate.
使用震机模式use vibration mode
来电显示caller number display/calling identity delivery （CID）
刺激消费者购买新手提电话spur the purchase of new cell phones
协议加价price-fixing
和弦铃声polyphonic melody
和记电讯Hutchison Telecom
和记环球电讯Hutchison Global Communications
固定电话线客户fixed-line phone customers
固网电话公司fixed line provider
固网电话服务fixed-line phone services
垃圾传真junk fax
服务质素service quality
城市电讯City Telecom （Hong Kong） （CTI）
城市电讯主席黄维基chairman Ricky Wong Wai-key
按键式电话touch-tone phone
星加坡电信总裁李显扬SingTel president Lee Hsien Yang
流动电话客户mobile customers
音频式电话/按键式电话touch-tone telephone
香港新电讯New T & T
香港电讯Cable & Wireless Hongkong Telecom
香港电讯自年初失去国际长途电话专利至今，长途电话的市场占有率下跌了百分之三十。
The company has suffered a 30 per cent drop in its share of the international call market which was opened to new-comers at the beginning of the year.
高用量用户high-volume user
商业电话费business lines charges/ business phone fee
国际长途电话收费international call rates
基本收费basic rate
基本通话时间basic airtime
彩色荧幕/彩色屏幕a colour screen
现时难以取得灾情细节，因为电话线路已切断，手提电话网络亦过分繁忙。
Details were difficult to obtain because telephone lines were down and mobile-phone networks overwhelmed.
陷入这股高科技热潮caught up in the high-tech hype
最大电讯公司dominant telecoms operator
最近撤消管制的市场the newly deregulated market
幅射过高emit high levels of radiation
换手提电话replaced their handsets
减少百分之四十的辐射reduce emissions by about 40 per cent
无线应用通讯协议WAP （wireless application protocol）
发射站cell sites
等候接听时手机发出的辐射radiation emitted from the phones while connecting
超越其它竞争对手leapfrog the competition
传呼机/call机pager
抢先为客户登记资料pre-registering users
新世界传动网New World Mobility
新世界电讯New World Telecommunications
新世界电话New World Telephone
新干线XGX
新电讯和电讯盈科展开高调骂战，互相指摘对方不择手段去抢住宅用户。
Phone rivals New T & T and Pacific Century CyberWorks-HKT are engaged in a high-level row， with each accusing the other of dirty tricks in the battle for residential customers.
万众电话Peoples Phone
蜂拥至电话店flock to phone shops
违反《电讯条例》第7M条have breached section 7M of the Telecommunications Ordinance
过去两年，本港手提电话用户人数上升百分之五十。
Mobile phone ownership has surged by 50 per cent in Hong Kong during the past two years.
铃声ringtone
电信业者carriers
电讯盈科约有二百一十万名家庭用户。
About 2.1 million households subscribe to PCCW-HKT.
电讯管理局高级助理总监（规管）欧文浩Au Man-ho， senior assistant director of the Office of the Telecommunications Authority
电讯管理局总监区文浩Ofta director-general Au Man-ho
电话公司phone companies
漫游roaming
尽力保留客户hang on to their customers
网络覆盖network coverage
诱惑snare
增值服务value-added services
影响消费者的自由选择threaten consumer choice
拨号式电话rotary telephone
数码通Smartone
数码通基本通话时间1，400分钟的月费由838元减至788元。
Fees come down from $838 to $788 for 1，400 minutes with Smartone.
搁置加价计划have dropped plans to increase monthly fees
简讯服务/简讯传送服务/短讯服务/短讯传送服务short messaging services （SMS）
转台switch mobile phone networks
转用收费较平的电话公司turning to cheaper landline service providers
转用其它电话公司的服务/转台switching providers
双频式网络Dual Band network
签两年合约sign a two-year contract
顾客可享用12个月的免费电话服务。
Customers can enjoy 12 months free telephone service.
下月起为该些网上商店提供运送服务to provide delivery services for their online sales from early next month
小全张miniature sheet
他相信邮件是在香港寄出。
He believed the letter was mailed in Hong Kong.
本地圣诞截邮日期the latest date for posting Christmas mail for local delivery
沙士爆发，多了人使用邮递服务。
The Sars outbreak had boosted the use of postal services.
纪念邮票commemorative stamps
首日封first day cover
航空邮简aerogram
速递公司express-delivery company
邮品philatelic items
邮政服务postal services
邮政署在十年前开始以营运基金模式运作。
The post office began operating as a trading fund 10 years ago.
邮政署长蒋任宏Postmaster-General Allan Chiang Yam-wang
邮展philatelic exhibition
邮费postal fees
（太空穿梭机）哥伦比亚号Columbia
（受灾／雨势）最严重地区the worst hit areas
（穿梭机）碎片debris
（台风）于下午三时在船湾淡水湖登陆。
It made landfall at Plover Cove reservoir at 3pm.
一股潮湿偏东气流a moist easterly airstream
一般来说，每年会有两个台风登陆日本。
In an average year， two typhoons will make landfall in Japan.
入冬以来最低（温度）
the lowest since winter arrived
十号飓风讯号No 10 hurricane signal
三峡堤坝工程The Three Gorges Dam project
小行星asteroid
中国的太空计划China's space programme
中国首位航天员杨利伟Yang Liwei， China's first man in space
中国首批航天员是在俄罗斯受训的。
The first batch of Chinese astronauts was trained in Russia.
化石fossil
天文台只是发出黄色暴雨警告及雷暴警告。
The Observatory issued only an amber rainstorm signal and a thunderstorm warning.
天文台在上午八时四十五分发出黄色暴雨警告，并于下午二时三十五分改挂红色暴雨警告。天文台在下午十时除下所有暴雨警告讯号。
The amber rainstorm warning was issued at 8.45am and was upgraded to red at 2.35pm. The warnings were dropped at 10pm.
天文台在雨势最大的乡郊地区录得超过二百毫米雨量纪录。
The Hong Kong Observatory recorded rainfall of more than 200mm in the worst-hit rural areas.
天文台于周五下午早段除下八号风球。
The No 8 signal came down early on Friday afternoon.
天文台表示在上午一时至三时间共录得4，593次闪电。
The Observatory said there were 4，593 lightning strikes between 1am and 3am.
天文台悬挂十号风球十一小时后，才在下午五时四十五分改挂八号风球。
By the time the No.10 signal was replaced by a No.8 at 5.45pm， it had been in force for 11 hours.
天文物理学家astrophysicist
天文学家stargazer/astronomer
天外来客/从外层空间来的客人a visitor from outer space
天气专家weather scientist
天气报告weather reports
天体celestial sphere
太空垃圾space trash
太空科学家space scientists
太空穿梭机spacecraft/shuttle
太空站space station
太空漫步space walks
太空舱space capsule
太空竞赛space race
太阳系的第十个星球the 10th planet of the solar system
太阳系边缘farthest reached of the solar system
屯门录得三十毫米雨量纪录。
Tuen Mun recorded 30mm of rainfall.
日本太空发展厅National Space Development Agency of Japan
日全蚀total eclipse of the sun
水浸报告reports of flooding
世上人口最多的国家the world's most populous country
以经改良的长征火箭（将宇宙飞船送上太空）
was launched with a new model of the Long March rocket
冬季季候风the winter monsoon over southern China
北极光aurora borealis/Northern Lights
占星学astrology
本港十六年来威力最大的台风约克，昨日袭港造成一死一失踪和大量破坏。
Typhoon York， the most powerful storm to hit Hong Kong for 16 years， killed one man， left another missing and caused a trail of destruction yesterday.
甘肃酒泉卫星发射中心Jiuquan satellite launch centre
生命宇宙论biocosm
亦会在科学馆展出will also be put on display at the Science Museum
光谱仪spectrometer
全球定位系统global positioning system （GPS）
地理位置geographical location
在内蒙着陆touched down in Inter Mongolia
在太阳系中心at the center of the solar system
在雨季during the rainy season
在很多地方，厚厚的云层遮盖了（日全蚀的）奇景，令数以千计聚集的人失望而回。
Heavy cloud obscured much of the spectacle and disappointed thousands of sky-watchers who had gathered.
在银河系中心at the center of the galaxy
多重宇宙multiverse/multiple universes
有利位置vantage point
自然现象natural phenomena
返回舱re-entry capsule
雨云rain clouds
前滩foreshore
宣布停课announced the suspension of classes
星象图chart of the night sky
昨午暴雨，下午校停课，学童提早放学。
Schoolchildren were yesterday sent home early when afternoon lessons were cancelled due to heavy rain.
昨日香港广泛地区下大雨，新界西北多处出现水浸。
Large area of the northwest New Territories were under water yesterday as torrential rain swept across the SAR.
流星shooting stars
流星雨meteor shower
为期五天的太空任务five-day space mission
约克抵达大陆，风力开始减弱，天文台遂于下午十时十分除下八号风球，改挂三号风球，并于下午十二时四十五分除下所有风球。
The No.8 was replaced with a No.3 at 10.10pm as York began to disintegrate over the mainland. All signals were lowered at 12.45pm.
美国太空总署NASA （National Aeronautics and Space Administration）
轨道、轨迹orbit
风眼the eye of the storm
首次载人上太空launched its first manned flight
香港今个月共发出三次寒冷警告。
Hong Kong has issued three cold warnings this month.
香港昨晨在两小时内闪电超过4，500次。
Hong Kong was hit by more than 4，500 lightning strikes in two hours early yesterday .
峡谷ravine
气象学家meteorologist
海床seabed
海港能见度visibility in the harbour
神舟五号the spacecraft Shenzhou V
神舟六号于上午四时三十三分着陆。
The Shenzhou VI touched down at 4.33am.