There are rules for companies that supply utilities like electricity and water to let competitors use their wires or pipes.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Now, neurons are connected and they talk to one another and it used to be thought they were tied to one another like a computer, like you take wires and you connect wires to each other, you wrap them around and connect them.

神经元之间是相互联系的,它们彼此间存在信息的传递,人们曾经以为它们是被绑在一起的,就像计算机,就像是你要把所有的电线接在一起一样,你把电线缠起来,连在一起

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From a distance the many wires look like the stringed musical instrument called the harp.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Like the tangled electricity wires at Bourj al Barajne camp outside Beirut, the situation of Palestinians in Lebanon is complicated.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The tiny silicon wires stick up from the base,or substrate, looking something like a microscopic hair brush.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19