"I was in a long distance relationship for about a year, and Skype really helped because you could actually see the other person when you are talking."

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That car stage or that car slice if we want to talk about that way it has only been around for however long months, years, a year.

那辆车的阶段或者部分,如果我们非要分析的话,只能持续很短时间,几个月，几年，或者一年。

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And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

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