Key Words

　　butt call

　　屁股电话

　　An unintended phone call placed by sitting on one's cell phone.

　　不经意地坐在自己的手机上而打出去的电话。

　　Have you ever picked up your telephone only to hear noise on the other end? Or maybe you heard bits of conversation or singing over some static?

　　If you were lucky, you recognized the voice of someone you knew. That's when you realized what had happened: Your friend had accidentally pressed the redial or speed-dial button on their cellular phone, which then placed a call to you.

　　Maybe the phone bumped up against something in a purse or briefcase, or rubbed up against a seat belt. Or maybe the phone fell on the floor. Maybe the person just sat on their phone-which explains why some industry insiders call inadvertent dialing "butt calls."

　　--"Butt calls: Let's put an end to 'em,"

　　ZDNet AnchorDesk, October 8, 2003

　　你有没有拿起电话接听却只听到另一端传来噪音的经历，或者你听到的是夹杂着静电干扰声的点滴谈话或歌唱声这种经历？

　　如果你走运，你听出这是某个你熟识的人的声音。那是在你明白过来是怎么回事的时候：你的一位朋友不经意地触碰了他的手机上的重拨或速拨按钮，于是拨通了你的电话。

　　也许是对方的电话碰撞了钱包或公事包里的什么东西，或者是擦碰了座椅安全带；或者也许是对方的电话掉落到了地板上；也许是对方仅仅坐到了自己的电话上--这就是一些业界内部人士把无意中的拨号称之为"屁股电话"的原因。

　　--《屁股电话：我们来杜绝这种电话吧》

　　(ZD网节目主持人部，2003年10月8日)

　　drunk dial

　　酒醉拨号

　　A phone call made while drunk.

　　在喝醉了的时候拨打的电话。

　　"Drunk dialing" brings blushes of recognition. Oh, yes. "Saying things that you shouldn't be saying because the cell phone's in your pocket and you're drunk," someone acknowledges, knowingly. "If you've got the phone in your hand, it's such a temptation."

　　"Stupid things," says Angie Hacker, an intern with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "My best friend at home, she broke up with this guy she went out with for two years. She calls him and like, 'I know you're not over me. I know you feel that way. You're just going out with that other girl because she's around.' And then she hung up."

　　-- "Cell Biology," The Washington Post

　　"酒醉时拨打电话"使人在明白后感到羞愧。啊，是这样的。"因为手机就在口袋里，而且喝醉了，就说些不该说的话，"有人会意地承认说。"如果你手头有着电话，就禁不住想拨打。"

　　美国公共利益研究会的实习生安吉·哈克说："(说的是)蠢话。她是我在家乡时最要好的朋友。她和与她相恋了两年的这个家伙吹了。她给他打电话，说什么'我知道你心里没有忘掉我，我知道你内心是这样感觉的；你与那另一个姑娘约会仅仅是因为她近在咫尺'。然后她挂断了电话。"

　　　 --《细胞生物学》(《华盛顿邮报》)

　　译注：这里cell一字可能一语双关，cell biology是细胞生物学，但手机的英文叫cell phone，在特定上下文中简称cell。这两个cell在英语中字面相同而意义不同。

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