More than half of Australian homes are still choosing to stick with their home phone.

超过一半的澳大利亚家庭仍然选择保留他们的座机。

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Generation Xers with young families, like my wife and I, can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than providing a mobile phone for every family member.

拥有年轻家庭的 X 世代，比如我和我的妻子，仍然发现相比于为每个家庭成员配一部手机，有个座机还是挺方便的。

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That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).

也就是说，事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏，在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话（使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣）。

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She says now every home has a phone,TV,fridge and washing machine, but before the '80s these were much rarer.

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Mr Schweikert surrounds himself with state Republicans, and gives out his home phone number to voters.

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One of the nurses even gave us her home phone number in case we needed to chat.

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