Mr. Thomas is making a long-distance call.

托马斯先生正在将长途电话。

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I made a long-distance call to my wife, asking her to sell our house.

我给妻子打了通长途电话，让她卖掉我们的房子。

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Even today, many find it hard to keep people of that generation on a long-distance call for very long-they still hear a meter ticking in their head and rush to finish.

即使是在今天，很多人都会发现，我们爷爷那辈人很少长时间打长途，他们脑袋中似乎有一个永远走着的表滴滴答答的提醒他们时间快到了，快点结束。

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Instead of tracking the cost of a long-distance phone call, for example, the new classification simply tracks the cost of telephone services.

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Most of them view it as a waste of time but a handful say that compared to making a long-distance phone call, it is still an inexpensive way to communicate with their friends and family who live in other countries.

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As a result, calls are charged at a much cheaper rate: long-distance and international calls can be made for the price of a local call and a home broadband-internet connection.

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