When they would call it would be short and few words would be spoken, he wondered if on Father's Day their calls were just a token2.
他们打电话来总是话短言又简,他怀疑父亲节这天他们打电话只是敷衍。
2
Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" — that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.