long-distance

ˌlong-ˈdistance adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1 FARtravelling over a long distance 长距离的，长途的

long-distance runner 长跑运动员

long-distance lorry driver 长途货车司机

long-distance travel/journey/flight/commuting etc 长途旅行/旅程/飞行/通勤等

2. long-distance call TCTa telephone call to a place that is far away 长途电话 OPP local

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long-distance call• Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.• The company said it plans to offer wireless telephone service beginning Thursday, with discounted packages of local and long-distance calling.• Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here.• Let us handle your long-distance calls, the letter said.• Starting in late 1984, other elements of long-distance calling will begin to change..

—long-distance adverbadv

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long-distance• Long-distance bus service now links the cities.• Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.• It came at last, a huge long-distance coach, with high steps in the doorway.• The development of long-distance commerce led to greater cultural contacts between continents.• He predicts that at least one in 10 long-distance customers will jump to the regional Bell operating companies, or BOCs.• We should therefore seek evidence for long-distance exchange as indications of political alliances and the growth of centralised political organisation.• There had been little traffic so far: mostly long-distance lorries.• Long-distance phone calls have gotten so much cheaper.• Instead, they pay basic long-distance rates, which are the highest rates a residential customer can pay, the study says.• A visitor to Keld does not have to be a long-distance walker to enjoy the scenic delights of the environs.

long-distance runner• No one by 1989 could doubt the Prime Minister's stamina as, politically, a long-distance runner.• This is the loneliness of the long-distance runner.• Even with recent improvements, the air could keep sprinters and long-distance runners wheezing through their events.• Occasionally long-distance runners would jog past, chatting quietly, their daily devotions almost done.

ˌlong-ˈdistance adjectiveadj

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