Our cars will run on electricity or water.

我们的汽车将靠电或水驱动。

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There are no paved roads, public transport, electricity or water.

那里没有平整的道路，公共交通，水或电。

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All this is similar to the ideas behind utility computing, in which computing resources were viewed as a metered service, as is the case for more traditional utilities (such as electricity or water).

所有这些都类似于效用计算(utility computing)背后的思想。在效用计算中，计算资源被看作一种计量服务，就像更传统的公共设施(例如水或电)一样。

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The tour of the farmhouse provides a sense of how the Frosts lived with no electricity or running water.

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

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They had no bathrooms, electricity or running water.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

There is no electricity or water supply and the nearest school is a five-kilometre (three miles) walk.

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Much of the region was without electricity or water, though it was being restored in places on Sunday.

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This is why cloud computing is likened to utilities that we use at our homes, such as electricity or water.

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