近几年来,在某些出版物、某些人的口语当中,经常出现“联系电话”和“邮编”两个新词。电话(telephone),是一种舶来品,从清末传入我国至今已有一百多年的历史。到了本世纪九十年代,电话作为人与人之间进行语言信息交换的工具,已进入千家万户。百年来, In recent years, in some publications and some people’s spoken language, two new words “contact number” and “zip code” often appear. Telephone is a kind of exotic product, which has been in the history of over one hundred years since it was introduced into our country from the late Qing Dynasty. By the 1990s, the telephone as a tool for exchanging language information among people has entered every household. For centuries,