Using English at Work：14 Checking Mail,Email,and Voicemail(7)

（单词翻译）

I "delete" the other message - I get rid of the other message.

We usually delete drafts once we've finished the final document, for example.

In this case, I'm deleting the second voicemail message, getting rid of it because I won't need to listen to it again.

Next I look at my clock and I see that it's already 9:30 a.m. It's time for my morning meeting.

Let's listen again to this story of checking email, mail, and voicemail, this time the story will be read at a normal speed.

The first thing I do when I get to work each morning is to check my inboxes.

I go to the mailroom to check my mail slot to see what mail has arrived overnight.

There are always a lot of intra-office and inter-office letters and memos¹.

Much of it is junk mail, so I spend a few minutes sorting through it.

The next thing I do is to turn on my computer to check email.

I open my email program and my new messages automatically download into my inbox.

Even though I have a pretty good spam filter, I still check through my trash folder² carefully to make sure nothing important was filtered out.

We're also not supposed to get personal emails at work, but sometimes my friends send or forward me messages to this address and I have to make sure I respond using my personal email address.

When I don't have time to finish a message or when I get interrupted, I save it into my draft folder.

Finally, I check my voicemail. I call the voicemail system and enter in my PIN to bypass the outgoing message.

I have two new messages, and after listening to them, I save one of them and delete the other.

I look at the clock and it's already 9:30 AM! It's time for the morning meeting.

That's the end of our second lesson. In our next lesson, number three, I'm going to talk about attending, or going to, an office meeting.

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