英语热词：打电话时的“喊叫模式” Yellular

“未见其人，先闻其声”说的是某些人的声音很有辨识度，而且声音比较响亮，人还没来呢，声音就先到了。我们生活中有时候也会遇到这样的人，打电话的声音那叫一个嘹亮，恨不得周边一公里的人都能听到。

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指手机信号不好的时候提高音量讲话的状态，好像那样大声讲话手机信号就能变好一样。我们可以称为“喊叫模式”。

这个yellular其实就是yell（喊叫）和cellular的合成词，我们的手机正式叫法是cellular phone（蜂窝电话），简称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.

有时候，有些人只要一打电话就会开启大嗓门模式，就好像他们并不是靠手机信号来传输自己的声音，而是在通过大喇叭传话一样。

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.

昨天晚上我在饭馆打电话时直接进入“喊叫模式”，可尴尬了。我当时在跟我爸爸打电话，我在这边很大声说话，他也听不到。