They were cut off from the West in 1948 when their government closed that border crossing.

当他们的政府于1948年封锁了那个那个边境通道以后，他们与西方国家的联系就被切断了。

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China recently agreed to straighten a route for airlines crossing its airspace which has cut 15 minutes off a flight to Europe.

中国最近同意为飞越其领空的飞机把一条线路改为直航线，这给前往欧洲的航班节约了15分钟的时间。

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The cut to be excavated lies close to a large-scale transformer station. There are high voltage wires of more than 80 over the cut and several underground water pipes crossing with the cut.

待开挖的路堑临近大型变电站，路堑上空有80余条高压线，地下有多处输水管与路堑交叉。

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