If the lane subsystem of a toll collecting station is looked upon the service provider then the arriving automobiles are customs.

对收费站系统来说，车道子系统是服务提供者，到达的车辆是客户。

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Every single collecting station collects and transforms the earthquake information at its location place in real time, and transmits them to remote monitoring center via line or wireless way.

采集单台站实时地对所在地点的地震信息进行采集转换，以有线或无线方式传输至远程监控中心站台。

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The astronaut can send out a robot which will work on the unknown planet, collecting rocks and minerals, putting up a permanent observation station or traveling far and wide.

宇航员可以派出机器人在这颗陌生的行星上工作，收集岩石和矿物；建立永久性观察站，或向四面八方走动。

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He then set up the first of the societies that to this day perform the hugely complex task of collecting money from every pub, club and radio station which uses music, distributing it to those who created it.

ECONOMIST: He who pays the piper

In practice it means that if a French radio station plays music by a UK artist, the French national collecting society collects the revenue.

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