When you send an e-mail you can also send a file as an attachment and that file can be a graphic, a program, a sound or whatever.

当发送电子邮件时，你还可以把一份文件作为附件发送，该文件可以是图片、程序、或声音文件等。

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Resume should be pasted in mail body, please do not send as an attachment.

请将应聘简历粘贴到邮件中，不要以附件的形式发送简历。

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It also has an e-mail alert feature designed to send a snapshot of what the camera is seeing as an attachment to any e-mail address.

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In Safari, for example, you can Tweet a link to a Web page, send it via Messages or e-mail it as a link, a PDF attachment or inside the message's body.

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