An automobile was formerly called a horseless carriage.

汽车原来被叫做不用马拉的车子。

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Wuzhishan, formerly called Tongza in the local dialect, was several years ago renamed after Mt. Wuzhishan, the highest mountain in Hainan. It lies on a small basin in the Mt. Wuzhishan area.

五指山市，以前在当地方言中俗称通什市，几年前由于海南海拔最高的山- - -五指山而更名，位于五指山区的小盆地。

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In the U.S., a decision was made recently to allow some spectrum formerly used for television (the so-called "white Spaces" between the channels) to be used for data networks, too.

在美国，最近作出的一项决定允许一些以前用于电视的频谱(频道与频道之间那些所谓的“空白频谱”)也可以用于数据网络。

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The area, formerly a village called Shangdi, is now dotted with buildings sporting the names of other global tech giants, like Oracle and Siemens.

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On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched CloudCracker, an upgrade to the Web-based penetration testing service he formerly called WPACracker, with a major upgrade to the speed and versatility of that password-breaking service.

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Arsen Ari Kalfayan, who by day runs business development for cloud labor start-up CrowdFlower (formerly called Dolores Labs), co-founded a nonprofit called Reason To Party that throws affordable fundraiser parties for a variety of causes, from an AIDS hospice to the San Francisco Food Bank.

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