现在还有多少人会去邮局寄纸质信件呢？据说，纸质报纸的发行量也在减少，因为越来越多的人都转向网络获取资讯资讯了。所以，现在的纸质报纸也开始被人戏称为snailpaper了。
It's 2013. The screens are winning adherents left and right. Print newspapers are turning into "snailpapers" that arrive at our doorsteps with news that is 12 hours late.
现在是2013年了。各类屏幕已赢得不同派别的集体支持，而纸质报纸正在变成“蜗牛报纸”。报纸送到我们门口的时候，那上面的资讯我们12小时前就已经知道了。
The word “snailpaper” is a play on snail mail: letters, bills, and other mail delivered physically and therefore much more slowly than e-mail. Slightly surprisingly, snail mail entered the language as far back as 1982. (Source: Word Spy)
“蜗牛报纸”这个词是对“蜗牛信件”一词的演绎，蜗牛信件指通过人工投递的信件、账单等，比电子邮件肯定慢很多。不过让人有些意外的是，“蜗牛信件”这个词早在1982年时就被收录进常用语言词条了。
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