我总是在电话旁放一叠便条纸。

I always keep a pad of paper by the phone.

youdao

现代都市游牧民从来不带纸，他们要写的东西记录到笔记本电脑、移动电话或者网络上。

Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online.

youdao

在纸街的大宅里，如果电话只响一声，而且你一接起来就断掉的话，你就知道那是某人为马拉打来的。

In the house on Paper Street, if the phone rang only once and you picked it up and the line was dead, you knew it was someone trying to reach Marla.

youdao

The piece of paper you have here is 250 names chosen randomly from a Manhattan phone book.

你们手上的那张纸有250个名字,都是从曼哈顿电话薄里随机挑出来的。

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