Instructors answer student questions by e-mail, instant message, phone or fax.

教师用电邮、即时讯息、电话或传真回答学生的问题。

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This is an answer machine. I am not at home, so please leave your message after the beep.

这是电话答录机。我现在不在家，请在“哔”的一声之后开始留言。

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The operation takes information about the customer as input, and outputs an approval message containing the answer.

该操作把有关客户的信息作为输入，然后输出一条包含应答的批准消息。

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The fear of rejection when someone doesn't answer a Facebook message lacks the impact of an ignored phone call, according to Wallace.

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It would be rude to be speaking to someone face-to-face then answer a phone call, but I can be talking to someone, or even sitting listening to a professor in a class, and also quickly answer a text message at the same time.

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He believes that many search engines, message boards and answer sites leave surfers empty-handed.

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