Very likely you are even now picking up the telephone to ring.

很可能此刻你正拿起电话打电话。

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Walk down to hall to see a colleague instead of picking up the telephone.

下楼到大厅赴见同事然而不是拿起电话听筒。

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Having grown up on the White City estate in the shadow of BBC Television Centre in west London, and working for the corporation as a messenger, Mr George went on to hang around its offices, keeping notes of telephone numbers and picking up copies of the staff magazine, Ariel, the prosecution said.

BBC: Profile: Barry George