One afternoon in November 1983, I received a long-distance telephone call from Beijing. A literary journal asked me to go to Beijing to revise one of my stories for publication.

在1983年11月的一个下午，我接到了一个来自北京的长途电话，一家文学杂志让我去北京修改我的小说。

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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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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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