Just think,even in the eighties,private telephones were still a rarity,and very few homes had phones installed. It cost as much as five thousand yuan to have one installed,and it was at a time when the average monthly wage was only about a hundred yuan.

• 想想看，就在80年代，私人电话还是稀罕物。 装一部电话要5000元，而那时的月平均工资才100元左右。 因此寻常百姓没有几家安装那玩艺儿的。