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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话① "Is it something that is still in use today?"
               ② "Not many."
               ③"And they certainly cost more than a dime now. I think they're like fifty cents."
HINTS
problematic
glorious
whistleblower

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"Drop a dime. Now this one is really problematic for kids who have grown up with cell phones because they don't recall, as you and I may, the glorious golden era of telephone booths. Making a call from a public telephone in a phone booth usually cost a dime. And so when we wanted to squeal on someone, to be a whistleblower and call the cops from a phone that couldn't be traced or where people couldn't see us, we would go into a phone booth, put a dime in and call the police. This is called dropping a dime."
"Well, the phrase is. We still talk about dropping a dime, to say that we're reporting someone, and then we become a dime dropper. But gosh, how many public phones are there out there anymore?"