I often send short messages to my friends.

我经常给我的朋友发手机短信。

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They use the telephone to send short messages to other people.

他们用电话给别人发短信。

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Users send short messages – a few lines of text – from either their computers or mobile phones.

用户通过电脑或手机发送短信（几行文本信息）。

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This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Simmons say Havana has long relied on short wave radio to send encoded messages using a system that converts letters into numbers.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

Gaming by Bluetooth--one player versus another across a room--is another attraction, as is the ability to send short messages across a room via Bluetooth during a meeting.

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It also fosters new ways of using the telephone: to send short messages (a billion a month in Europe), to pay for a Coke, to make a bet, to receive instant recommendations on where to park or to eat.

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When I first heard about Shenzhen-based Tencent during the early 2000s from ICQ managers, Tencent was working with China Mobile to allow PC users to send short messages from PCs to phones, and then via SMS (mobile Short Messaging Service) back again.

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