The breeze had long since dropped, and the dry grass stood stiff and straight as copper wires.

微风早经停息了；枯草支支直立，有如铜丝。

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It is easy to see the attraction of replacing electrons, which travel along copper wires and make today’s computers tick, with photons.

电子通过铜线传输，使当今电脑（以时序周期方式）工作，而用光子替代电子的吸引力（好处）是显而易见的。

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Telmex has been equally successful at fending off attempts to grant rival companies access to its network of copper wires, which serve 18m customers.

Telmex也成功的阻止了让竞争公司使用其铜缆网络的企图，该铜缆网络为1800万用户服务。

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This is one reason why optical fibres are replacing electricity-carrying copper wires for communications.

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Crosstalk is just one kind of noise that gets into those copper wires.

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And if those copper wires were replaced with something better, even more power could be piped through the grid.

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