Instructors answer student questions by e-mail, instant message, phone or fax.

教师用电邮、即时讯息、电话或传真回答学生的问题。

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When most of us get a text message on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say "sorry, wrong number!"

当我们收到陌生人的短信时, 我们通常会说：“对不起, 你发错了！”

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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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(PHONE VIBRATING) Hey, Mom, I'm glad you got my message.

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Many assistants never meet their clients, communicating instead by email, instant message, phone or videoconference.

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Naturally then, Facebook would want people to be able to click to send a text message or phone call without leaving to a rival service.

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If the phone's been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it.

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