Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter, and the most unfriendly is email.

按照私人化程度降序排列，其他选择有：实时电话、语音邮件、手写便条、机打信件，而最不友好的是电子邮件。

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When you speak, write a letter, or make a telephone, your words carry a message.

当你说话、写信或打电话时，你的话语传递着信息。

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A deeper and longer-lasting impression of a message was formed when delivered in a letter, as opposed to receiving the same message online.

与线上接收信息不同的是，人们在写信时对同样的信息的印象会更深刻、更持久。

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Let's forget about a letter, let's stick with an e-mail, or a text message.

就算你没有写过信，写电子邮件，发短信也算一种写作。

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People covered by the service first receive a telephone message or letter to say they have been added to the system.

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And that was the message of a letter that I received over the weekend.

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The only way to send a text message was to write a letter and slap a stamp on it.

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