1. Each week a computer totals the average length of your calls; if it is under 14 minutes, you're in trouble.
    每周，电脑会累计你所接听电话的平均长度；如果不到14分钟，你就有麻烦了。

2. But a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires.
    但是单单一根直径小于半毫米的光纤电缆就可以比由铜丝制成的粗电缆负载更多的信息。

3. Broadly speaking, however, the superhighway refers to the union of today's broadcasting, cable, video, telephone, and computer and semiconductor industries into one large all-connected industry.
    但广义地说，信息高速公路是指由今天的广播、电视、录像、电话、电脑、半导体等产业组合而成的一个互相关联的大产业。

4. We discussed the matter at full length.
    我们详细地讨论了这件事。

5. The problem will be discussed at length in subsequent chapters.
    这个问题将在后面几章详细讨论。

6. The truck used a cable to tow the car.
    卡车用缆索拖曳汽车。

7. The metre is a unit of length.
    米是长度单位.

8. The village seemed deserted, the only sign of life being an ugly-looking black goat on a short length of rope tied to a tree in a field nearby.
    村里似乎无人居住，唯一的生命迹象是附近田里一只面目可憎的黑山羊，用一截短绳拴在一棵树上。

9. The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.
    这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或逆戟鲸，而是深受人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，只不过它们长得出奇地大，有时长达12英尺。

10. That leaves private industry — computer, phone, and cable companies — to move into the vacuum left by the government's absence.
    这就使得私人企业 -- 电脑公司、电话公司、有线电视公司 -- 得以填补由于政府无法顾及所留下的空缺。