打電話時的“喊叫模式”

Yellular is the loudness one adopts in response to a bad cell-phone connection, in the misguided hope that talking louder will improve the connection.

Yellular指手機信號不好的時候提高音量講話的狀態(tài)，好像那樣大聲講話手機信號就能變好一樣。我們可以稱為“喊叫模式”。

這個yellular其實就是yell(喊叫)和cellular的合成詞，我們的手機正式叫法是cellular phone(蜂窩電話)，簡稱cell phone。

Sometimes, some people just cannot help yelling whenever they are on the phone, it seems that their voice is not transmitted through phone signal but via a speaker.

有時候，有些人只要一打電話就會開啟大嗓門模式，就好像他們并不是靠手機信號來傳輸自己的聲音，而是在通過大喇叭傳話一樣。

For example:

I'm so embarrassed. I went totally yellular at a restaurant last night. I was talking to my dad on the phone, but he just couldn't hear me no matter how loudly I spoke on this side.

昨天晚上我在飯館打電話時直接進入“喊叫模式”，可尷尬了。我當(dāng)時在跟我爸爸打電話，我在這邊很大聲說話，他也聽不到。