The results: hearing just the "tete" in a cell phone tete-a-tete leads to poor performance in other tasks.
结果显示在旁听电话谈话中的一方在做其他任务时的表现都很差。
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As soon as a text pops up or a call comes through, everyone else at the table is trapped in conversational limbo while you have your own digital tete-a-tete.
一旦有人收到了短信或者电话，餐桌前的所有人都会因为你个人的数字通讯事务而中断谈话交流。
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She was looking forward to a period of unbroken rest, now, and undisturbed tete-a-tete with her husband, when he informed her that Gouvernail was coming up to stay a week or two.