通话往往被中断，尤其是移动电话用户非要较劲，边走路边打电话。

Calls are often disconnected, especially if a "mobile" subscriber is presumptuous enough to walk while he talks.

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数以千计的树木被连根拔起，电话线路中断，南部的所有通话服务中止，国内四分之一的地方停电。

Thousands of trees were uprooted, telephone lines were cut, all rall services in the south were stopped, and a quarter of the country lost its electricity.

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