直线: straight line, sharply (rise or fall)...
祖国: motherland...
官吏: bureaucrat, official...
占线: busy (telephone line)...
挂: to hang or suspend (from a hook etc), to hang up (the phone), (of a line) to be dead, to be worried or concerned, to make a phone call (dialect), to register or record, classifier for sets or clust...
快餐: fast food, snack, quick meal...
歌声: singing voice, original voice of a poet...
优胜劣汰: survival of the fittest (idiom)...
拜访: to pay a visit, to call on...
中立: neutral, neutrality...