Mobile phone text messages are changing the way people approach romantic relationships, according to a survey published in the British newspaper the Times.

英国《泰晤士报》公布的一项调查结果显示，手机短信正在改变人们谈情说爱的方式。

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British mobile phone users send an average of 3.6 text messages and make 2.8 phone calls a day.

英国的手机用户平均每天发3.6条短信，打2.8个手机电话。

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The text type theory, proposed by the German translation theorist K. Reiss and the British translation theorist P.

文本类型理论是德国翻译理论家赖斯和英国翻译家纽马克根据语言功能对文本进行功能划分的理论。

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In the former, Robert and Edward Skidelsky, a father-and-son pair of British academics, take as their text an essay written in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes.

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One of the most intriguing alternatives is Swiftkey an intelligent text prediction product from a small British company called Touchtype.

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And now the same thing could be about to happen to mobile-phone text messages, following the launch this week of Hotxt, a British start-up.

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