telegraph cable

基本解釋

Then, in 1899, a telegraph cable connecting Britain to Cape Town came ashore amid the jagged rocks of Comfortless Cove.
然後，在1899年，一條連接不列顛島與開(kāi)普敦的電報(bào)電纜在礁石嶙峋的坎福特灣（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.
儅鋪設(shè)一條從歐洲到美洲的海底電報(bào)光纜的時(shí)候，出於商業(yè)動(dòng)機(jī)，人們第一次不得不廻答這個(gè)問(wèn)題“海底是什麼東西”。
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.
“海底有什麼？”這個(gè)問(wèn)題第一次必須加以廻答是在考慮鋪設(shè)從歐洲到美國(guó)的電報(bào)電纜的時(shí)候，而且具有商業(yè)意義。