1. The few remaining working lines will be busy with the calls that naturally occur after a disaster and it will be difficult to call from one part of the city to another.
    剩下的为数不多的可用线路会很忙，因为灾难之后自然会有许多电话，要从市里的一个地方打到另一个地方会很困难。

2. 6 p.m. The movers finally arrive. I call Max. He's fit to be tied. I point out they're only 10 hours late. Max is not humored.
    下午六点。搬运工终于来了。我再给马克斯打电话。他气得要命。我告诉他搬运工只迟到了十个小时。他却仍然很生气。

3. No one from Taiwan could visit, write, or call anyone on the mainland.
    任何一个台湾人都不能访问、写信或打电话给中国大陆的人。

4. 3 p.m. Movers still haven't arrived. I call Max, who's more enraged than before. "This is unheard-of," he says. "I'm taking another $10 off the hourly charge."
    下午三点。搬运工还没到。我又给马克斯打电话。他比先前更生气。"真是闻所未闻，"他说，"我从每小时的工钱中再减去十美元。"

5. He told him he had better return it or he would call the police.
    告诉他最好把羊交还，否则就去叫警察。

6. He threatened to call the police.
    威胁说要去叫警察。

7. He loved to be told that one of his imaginary products was temporarily out of stock and he would faithfully promise to call again at some future date, but of course he never did.
    他爱听售货员说他想像出来的那种东西暂时脱销，于是他就煞有介事地许诺改天再来光顾。当然，他再也不会来了。

8. He had phoned a friend for advice and then he had gone to the apartment of the elderly woman to get her to make the call.
    他先是打给一个朋友征求意见，然后又跑到那老太太家里让她打电话。

9. He learned to call it a "suggested technique" because people "don't like to be told what to do.
    后来他改称它为"参考技术"，因为人们"都不喜欢由别人告诉自己该怎么做。

10. He makes time every day to listen to his seven-year-old son play the piano — even if it is no more than a few minutes during a phone call while he is away at a conference.
    他每天都挤出时间来听7岁的儿子弹钢琴，既使在他外出开会时，也要通过电话听几分钟。