These days, when my landline rings, it’s usually a complete stranger calling to ask me how I am today, so I try to just let it ring. But it’s hard. I spent formative decades racing to answer the phone because otherwise I’d have no idea who was on the other end. I still feel the urge to jump up and answer at the cellular level.
So it’s probably no use. I’ll have to keep the phone. It’s securely fastened to my past, and I don’t want to lose one more thing.
Vocabulary
1. dial up: 拨号;landline: 座机,固话。
2. float: 漂浮;whimper: 抽泣,呜咽;leave behind: 丢下。
3. stigma: 耻辱,污名。
4. rotary phone: 转盘电话。
5. slip out: 不知不觉地滑掉;get something all the way around: 完全解决,此处指拨完电话号码。
6. conversation: 会话,谈话。
7. cord: (细)绳。
8. North Dakota: 北达科他州,美国中北部一州;exhilarating: 令人欢欣的。
9. hang up: 挂断(电话)。
10. 他们的声音通过真正的密封线缆进行传播,完全不受天气的影响,然后从听筒中如奶油般滑出。honest-to-goodness: 真正的;enclosed: 被包住的;creamy: 奶油般柔滑的;receiving end: 接收端。
11. 现在,你的声音必须在空中传播,中间会遇见蚊子、飓风等等,等它到达你朋友的耳朵之时,听起来像是从饼干盒底部发出来的一样。bump into: 偶然遇见;mosquito: 蚊子;hurricane: 飓风;cracker: 薄脆饼干。
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