I prefer to make a call if I'm in a hurry.

如果赶时间的话，我更喜欢打电话。

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If you can't get there on time, make a call as early as possible.

如果你不能准时到达那里，请尽早打电话。

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Can you wait a second while I make a call?

你能等一会儿让我打个电话吗？

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But I think it really is a call to make sure you remember to do that during the day,during the week, during the months before and after Valentine's Day."

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But you get the beginnings of that sketched in the readings, and it's a judgment call you've got to make.

你通过这些阅读材料得到一些初步了解后,你就需要作出判断了

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And I was trying to make a final call on the summer job and Bill called and said "Hey look Steve. Geez, how are you doing? Gosh, things get complicated here we need a business person. What about you?"

那时我正试图把暑假打工的事,一锤定音，比尔打电话给我，说,“嘿史蒂夫，最近怎么样？,天呐我们这儿越来越复杂了，需要个,搞商的人，你来怎么样？“

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And then there are the carriers, without whom no one can make a call.

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"It's good because, if it's an emergency, I can make a call, " he said.

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In an unusual situation where the individual can neither make a call nor do receive one.

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