在现代社会,越来越多的人不喜欢接电话了。
这是为什么呢?
首先,很多人觉得电话来的时候很突然,会打断他们正在做的事情。
比如,在工作、学习或者休息的时候,电话铃声响起,会让人感到不舒服。
其次,现在有很多其他的交流方式,比如短信、微信、电子邮件等。
这些方式可以让人有更多的时间思考怎么回答,不需要马上回复。
另外,有些人接到电话会感到紧张,特别是当他们不知道是谁打来的时候。
他们担心自己说错话,或者不知道怎么回答对方的问题。
还有,现在有很多广告电话和诈骗电话,让人们对接电话产生了反感。
他们害怕接到这样的电话,所以面对陌生的号码,很多人选择不接。
总的来说,随着科技的发展,人们有了更多的交流方式。
相比之下,电话这种方式变得不那么受欢迎了。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 现代 | xiàn dài | modern times / modern age / modern era |
| 社会 | shè huì | society |
| 越来越 | yuè lái yuè | more and more |
| 多 | duō | many; much; more; a lot of |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 喜欢 | xǐ huan | to like; to be fond of |
| 接 | jiē | to receive / to answer (the phone) / to meet or welcome sb |
| 电话 | diàn huà | telephone / phone call |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 为什么 | wèi shén me | why? / for what reason? |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?") |
| 首先 | shǒu xiān | first of all; in the first place |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many; a lot of |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 时候 | shí hou | time / length of time / moment / period |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 突然 | tū rán | sudden; abrupt; unexpected |
| 会 | huì | to be likely to; to be sure to |
| 打断 | dǎ duàn | to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone) |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 正在 | zhèng zài | to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing |
| 做 | zuò | to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business |
| 比如 | bǐ rú | for example; for instance; such as |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work / (of a machine) to operate |
| 学习 | xué xí | to learn / to study |
| 或者 | huò zhě | or |
| 休息 | xiū xi | to rest |
| 铃声 | líng shēng | ring / ringtone / bell stroke / tintinnabulation |
| 响 | xiǎng | to make a sound / to sound / to ring |
| 起 | qǐ | verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
| 舒服 | shū fu | comfortable / feeling well |
| 其次 | qí cì | next / secondly |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 其他 | qí tā | other / (sth or sb) else / the rest |
| 交流 | jiāo liú | communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb) |
| 方式 | fāng shì | way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc) |
| 短信 | duǎn xìn | text message / SMS |
| 微信 | Wēi xìn | Weixin or WeChat |
| 电子邮件 | diàn zǐ yóu jiàn | |
| 等 | děng | and so on; etc.; et al. / (used to end an enumeration) |
| 这些 | zhè xiē | these |
| 可以 | kě yǐ | can / may / possible / able to |
| 更多 | gèng duō | more; greater in amount, degree, or number |
| 时间 | shí jiān | time |
| 思考 | sī kǎo | to reflect on / to ponder over |
| 怎么 | zěn me | how? / what? / why? |
| 回答 | huí dá | to reply; to answer / reply; answer |
| 需要 | xū yào | to need; to want; to demand; to require |
| 马上 | mǎ shàng | at once / right away / immediately |
| 回复 | huí fù | to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) |
| 另外 | lìng wài | in addition / besides / moreover / furthermore |
| 有些 | yǒu xiē | some |
| 接到 | jiē dào | to receive |
| 紧张 | jǐn zhāng | nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained |
| 特别 | tè bié | very; especially; particularly / in particular |
| 当 | dāng | when / during / ought / should / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / just at |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 谁 | shéi | who |
| 打 | dǎ | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings |
| 担心 | dān xīn | to worry / to be anxious |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 错 | cuò | wrong / bad / interlocking / complex |
| 话 | huà | spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said |
| 对方 | duì fāng | the other person; the other side; the other party |
| 问题 | wèn tí | question / problem / issue / topic |
| 还有 | hái yǒu | in addition |
| 广告 | guǎng gào | a commercial / advertisement |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 诈骗 | zhà piàn | to defraud / to swindle / to blackmail |
| 人们 | rén men | people |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 产生 | chǎn shēng | to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate |
| 反感 | fǎn gǎn | bad reaction / antipathy |
| 害怕 | hài pà | to be afraid; to be scared |
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 这样 | zhè yàng | (before a noun) this kind of; such |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 面对 | miàn duì | to face; to confront |
| 陌生 | mò shēng | strange; unfamiliar |
| 号码 | hào mǎ | number |
| 选择 | xuǎn zé | to select; to pick |
| 总的来说 | zǒng de lái shuō | generally speaking / in summary / in short |
| 随着 | suí zhe | along with / in the wake of / following |
| 科技 | kē jì | science and technology |
| 发展 | fā zhǎn | development / growth |
| 相比之下 | xiāng bǐ zhī xià | by comparison |
| 种 | zhǒng | classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 变得 | biàn de | to become |
| 那么 | nà me | like that; in that way; to that extent |
| 受 | shòu | subjected to / (passive marker) |
| 欢迎 | huān yíng | welcome |