Once the new expressway is completed, most of the long-distance traffic and some local traffic would be diverted from existing roads to the new expressway, reducing road congestion.

新的高速公路竣工后，大部分长途运输和部分地方运输将从现有的公路转到新的高速公路，从而缓解目前的道路堵塞问题。

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Telecom companies around the world would simultaneously abolish long-distance calling charges, making every call a local call.

世界上的电信公司将同时废除长途通讯费用，使得每通电话都变成本地通话。

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Smart grid describes a more efficient, less costly method of moving electricity along long-distance transmission lines to local power lines and end-users in homes and businesses.

智能电网用效率更高、成本更低的传输方法——长距离地将电能传输到地方输电线、家庭和企业的终端用户。

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It forthrightly refused to recognize that the Internet was obliterating traditional barriers between long-distance and local telephone calls and between telephony, TV, radio and cable.

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MCI's dream of offering integrated long-distance, local and Internet access without having to pay the Baby Bells their current tariff of 45 cents out of every dollar of long-distance revenues.

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All the vested parties--long-distance and local carriers, cell phone providers, satellite servers, cablers, owners of radio and television stations--ferociously fight to preserve their pieces of turf, and try to stick a shiv in their competitors.

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