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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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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We have plenty of band with a long distance and thanks to local area networks like my own baby Ethernet, we have plenty of bandwidth in local area that was inside of buildings. But there is a gap, there is a gap between the LAN, the local area network, and the WAN, the Wide Area Network.

我们有大量长距离网带,多亏了局域网，就像我的宝贝,以太网，我们在本地有大量的带宽,那都在建筑物内部的，但是这儿有空白,在LAN之间有空白地带，即局域网,以及WAN，广域网。

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Changes in the telecommunication industry resulted in so many choices that with each passing day firms pitching long distance or local phone service grew more feverish in their marketing efforts.

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"Traditional models of competition and traditional notions of long distance or local companies do not apply, " said MCI CEO Michael Capellas , whose company is also being courted by Qwest Communications International (nyse: Q - news - people ).

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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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