If you are making a long distance call on a public telephone and run out of money, give the number on your phone to the person you're talking to. Then hang up the receiver and he can call you back.

如果你用公共电话打长途，钱花光了，把你的电话号码给你正在通话的人，然后挂上电话，他会给你回电话的。

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As soon as he got Shanghai, he made a long distance call to me (he called me.)

他一到上海就给我打了一个长途电话。

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He received a long-distance phone call from his girlfriend in Colorado.

他接到女朋友从科罗拉多州打来的长途电话。

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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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