She knows that she can reach God wherever, whenever, and forever. There is no waiting-no busy signal, no answering machine, no voice mail, no "phone tag."

她知道她能随时随地甚至是永永远远地到神面前，完全不需等候——没有电话占线的讯号，没有电话留言，没有打来打去找不着人的情况。

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I’m no longer sure why I have a home phone, whose voice mail I neglect.

我都不知道为什么我会安装一部忽略语音信箱的家庭电话。

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There's no excuse for telling a partner you haven't received a fax someone sent you or missed a voice mail because you weren't in the office.

你不在办公室也不再是错过传真或电话留言的借口。

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The CEO in yet another organization decided one day that outside callers were going to voice mail too often, and so decreed that no one in the company would have voice mail.

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The voice-mail no longer picks up.

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But if your phone is receiving bits of data every now and again, some of which could be part of a voice call and some an e-mail, there's no recognisable cut-off that can be used to calibrate your bill.

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