X By answering the phone, you have just shown that the unknown caller is more important than the current conversation.

如果你接起电话，就表示这个来电者要比眼前的这个谈话更重要。

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Customer-service complaints flooded the phone lines and in-boxes and were often dealt with by simply not answering the phone or doing a mass deletion.

客服部的投诉电话，信件都爆满。 而paypal只能干脆不接电话或是把这些信件删掉。

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Designed by Claus Scholz of Vienna in the mid-1960s, this phone-answering robot was the solution.

这是维也纳人Claus Scholz在上世纪60年代中期发明的，一个接电话机器人。

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The business mogul was answering questions submitted by members of the public in an open phone call organised by Save the Children.

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Constantly barraged by endless e-mails, spending weekends travelling, answering the phone throughout the night.

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In the second voicemail, the person was apparently upset by someone else answering Te'o's phone.

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