This could be down to laziness, the cost of going out or simply not wanting too much personal contact with friends and family but just enough to swap brief messages and online chats。 It all adds up.

这可能是因为懒惰或是舍不得外出的花费，也可能仅仅是因为不想跟朋友和家人有太多面对面接触，认为简单发送几条信息或网上聊聊天就足够了。

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This could be down to laziness, the cost of going out or simply not wanting too much personal contact with friends and family but just enough to swap brief messages and online chats.

这可能是因为懒惰或是舍不得外出的花费，也可能仅仅是因为不想跟朋友和家人有太多面对面接触，认为简单发送几条信息或网上聊聊天就足够了。

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And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.

你一旦开始用网络交际取代人与人的真实接触，要走出这种穴居状态就会相当困难。

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Out of those that will be in contact with the office, 61 percent plan to use e-mail or voicemail on a daily basis.

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