昨夜她打电话给她在南加州的两个儿子，一个三岁，另一个一岁，告诉孩子们她将要去一个叫做阿富汗的地方工作，要去一年。

She called her children in North Carolina, ages 3 and 1, and told themshe would soon be going to work in a place called Afghanistan.

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即使它们仍被我们叫做“电话”(电话这个词源自希腊语中的“声音”一词)，打电话可能不再是它们的主要功能了。

And even if they are still called "phones" -a word derived from the Greek word for voice-making voice calls may no longer be their primary function.

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如果你不想成为先打电话的那个人，你可以采取另外一个分离测试，这项测试叫做初始感应。

If you have felt like you didn't want to be the first to call, you could be using another separation test called initiation induction.

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