The reality is, taking one's phone out at the wrong time is worse than belching because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious.

事实是，在错误的时间拿出手机比打嗝更糟糕，因为这不像其他小过错，查看科技产品是会传染的。

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After an hour and a half, I pulled my cell phone out to call the friends I was supposed to meet that evening.

一个半小时后，我拿出手机给我那天晚上要见面的朋友们打电话。

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A WOMAN: Let me take the phone out of the studio so that we can carry on with the interview.

一个女工作人员：我把这个手机拿到演播室外头吧，这样才能继续采访。

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"We have one project called bee-spotters, which is now restricted to Illinois, where we ask people to go out with a digital camera,even a cell phone, and photograph either bumblebees or honeybees."

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You're on the phone with this guy all the time and you sniff something out, you can maybe stop it.

如果你和某人经常通话联系,并且嗅出了问题,你也许就不会借钱给他们了

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I need you tear not the page out; I need you to tear this phone book in half in front of 500 of your peers.

我不是要你仅仅撕下来那一页;,我要你当着500位同学的面,把整个电话薄撕成两半。

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He pulled his phone out again after the plane remained at the gate, he said.

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Nokia and Microsoft should bring their first phone out some time next year.

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The handset isn't going to weigh pockets down at 127 grams, but it's not the most slender phone out there, either.

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