snail mail
英 [ˈsneɪl meɪl]
美 [ˈsneɪl meɪl]
n. 蜗牛邮件(电邮使用者用以比喻普通邮寄)
牛津词典
noun
- 蜗牛邮件(电邮使用者用以比喻普通邮寄)
used especially by people who use email on computers to describe the system of sending letters by ordinary mail
柯林斯词典
- (与电子邮件相比而言的)蜗牛邮件,普通邮件
Some computer users refer to the postal system assnail mail, because it is very slow in comparison with e-mail.
英英释义
noun
- any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service
- email is much faster than snail mail
双语例句
- All the more reason to bill them and close the books. Invoices should be sent in triplicate, she adds. Send each invoice by snail mail, email, and with a phone message saying the invoice was sent.
她还补充道,发票要一式三份,分别通过邮寄信件、电子邮件和手机邮件(告知发票已寄送)形式发出。 - "snail mail" letters by post, so I could see your handwriting, feel your paper, and generally feel.
阅读您的信是一种愉悦。我请求发送蜗牛邮件,这样我就可以看到您的手稿,并能更加的了。 - Mike: Any snail mail for me today?
今天有要给我的邮件吗? - Mary: But it's not just texting, it's e-mail. It's voicemail. It's snail mail.
我不仅讨厌短信,还讨厌电子邮件,语音留言,慢邮。 - E-cigarettes are to tobacco cigarettes ase-mail is to snail mail.
电子香烟是把烟草香烟像电子邮件一样缓慢发出传递的。 - Instead of spamming customers with irrelevant and unwanted emails, snail mail and sales calls, companies need to present offers unique to each of their customers.
所以说企业不应漫无目的地向顾客发垃圾邮件、寄促销信、打促销电话,而是需要根据每个顾客的实际情况提供独特的促销内容。 - Print the drawing and then send it by snail mail.
将绘图打印出来并通过拖沓的邮政系统将其邮寄出去。 - It is called "snail mail" because it can be very slow, as is snail.
之所以被叫做“蜗牛”是因为它的速度很慢,好像蜗牛一般。 - Slightly surprisingly, snail mail entered the language as far back as 1982. ( Source: Word Spy)
不过让人有些意外的是,蜗牛信件这个词早在1982年时就被收录进常用语言词条了。 - When I was in college there were two forms of communication available to the average citizen: the telephone and what we now call snail mail.
在我上大学的那个时候,对普通市民来说,有两种沟通方式可供选择:电话,以及我们现在所谓的蜗牛信件。
