Joozone Editor's Note：论电话与写信 Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?

提纲：
1.许多人都认为人电话将取代写信，你认为呢？
2.请列举能支持你观点的论据
3.给一个简短的结论

正文开始：
Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?

Today, more than ever before, we depend on the expediency brought about by such modern devices as phones. As a result, when we feel the need to communicate with friends, instead of picking up the pen to set down to serious writing, we pick up the phone. Indeed, we speak so much and write so little that some people begin to suspect that phones will kill letter writing.
如今，不比过去，我们更多的是依靠机等现代设备所带来解决问题的权宜之计。结果是，当我们觉得需要和朋友联系(好学英文网建议也可以翻译为：交流)的时候，我们用电话取而代之了拿起笔来写信。确实，我们说可以说这么多，而写只可以写一点，所以很多人都放弃了写信，用起了电话。

However widely used it is today, the phone will not take the place of letter, for both phone and letter writing have respective functions to perform.
但是在今天电话在广泛使用的同时，它始终是没法取代书信的，因为电话和书信都履行各自的职能。

There are at least two reasons, as far as I am concerned, why this will not happen. For one thing, although phones admittedly have already taken over many roles traditionally played by the letter, there are certain areas such as commercial transactions and legal correspondence, in which black and white sincerity and confirmation is still a must. For another, in no way can a quick phone conversation convey and accomplish as much as a deliberate, well worded letter does. hxw.red
我这里至少可以列出两个原因，据我所知，为什么不会出现这种情况呢？（电话取代书信这种情况）首先，虽然电话已经取代了传统的信中所扮演角色，还有如商业交易和法律函授某些领域方面，白纸黑字的确认还是必须的。第二点，电话绝对是没有书信传递的那么准确(信息完整度高)，及措辞准确度。

For instance, there seems to be no better device than letter writing to express deep, heart-felt, profound love, a fact underlined by the enormous love letters of great men and women.
举例来说，电话似乎没有像写信那样表达的深切、发自内心的，深刻的情谊。事实上，伟大的男女之间的爱产生在情书上。

　As we know, in the 1960’s, there had been so much talk that TV would kill newspapers. And it has never happened.
众所周知，在60年代的时候，人们都在议论，电视机将会取代报纸。但是到如今这件事都一直没有发生。

Today we are in a similar situation. We can be certain, for the reasons discussed above, that letter writing is irreplaceable.
今天，我们在类似情况下。我们可以肯定，通过上面讨论的原因得出，写书信是不可替代的。
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