In everyday English, people usually say that a machine or piece of equipment is not working or is broken rather than out of order: 在日常英语中,表示机器或设备发生故障时,人们一般说not working或broken,而不说out of order
The phone’s not working.
电话坏了。
Examples from the Corpus
be out of order• Oh no, the copy machine's out of order.• Sit down Mr. Phillips! You're out of order.• Some of the pageswere out of order.• At last he called the operator and asked whether the phonewas out of order.• Father, something is out of order here.• A campaignspeechis out of order.• The toiletsare almost always out of order.• Every phone I tried was out of order.• The sobbing woman is out of order, embarrassing, unreasonable.