Her voice mail that morning had one brief message on it: "I'll be there at the full moon, when he ripens."

那天早上，她的语音信箱里有一条简短的信息：“我将会在满月那天到，那时他就会成熟了。”

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Put a brief explanation of the nature of the E-mail (like "question about paper") in the subject line.

请在标题栏中给邮件性质写一个简短的说明（就像“关于论文的问题”）。

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Communication can be brief - five minutes on the phone or several sentences in an E-mail.

不要过分给朋友打电话和发邮件，使用简短的交流——5分钟电话或者几句话邮件。

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Together with Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg Graduate Business School at Northwestern University, and several other academics, Mr Morris studied mock negotiations that used only e-mail and compared them with ones preceded by a brief getting-to-know-you telephone call.

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