思否英文外刊，探索，把宽带带到美国农村( 二 )

所以，医院、警察、国土防卫，也许还有其他在该地区提供的紧急服务。

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It's a ltte tt more difficult to make an argument that,then you also need to subsidize internet service to an individual household.
提出这个论点有点困难，也需要为个别家庭补贴互联网服务。
But in some areas,the government is stepping in 240 to be exact.
但在某些领域，政府正在介入。确切地说， 240个领域。
Cherie works from homeOsceola Iowa for a Minnesota based education company.
切丽在爱荷华州奥西奥拉的家中为明尼苏达州的的一家教育公司工作。

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On Wednesdays,wve have a team meeting that our whole group will get together.
星期三，我们有一个小组会议,整个小组将聚在一起。
Just a year ago,working like thiss was impossible.
就在一年前，像这样工作还是不可能的。
Cheririe had to pay $600 a month to rent office space 45 minutes away from home to get broadband access.
切丽必须每月支付600美元,才能租到离家45分钟车程的办公空间，以接入宽带。

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Fed up,she wrote to her Congress person,US Senator Chuck Grassley.
她受够了，于是写信给她的国会代表,美国参议员查克.格拉斯利。
I told him about our dream of pursuing buying this farm property,building a new home out here,wanting to work from home,but was not able to because the internet provider at that point did not have high-speed.
我告诉他，我们的梦想是买下这片农田，在这里建一个新家，想在家里工作，但却做不到，因为当时的互联网服务提供商没有高速宽带。
And he said wll, I have you know good news for you,he said this Connect America Funding was made availab to internet providers through all of Iowa.
他表示，我有个好消息要告诉你们，爱荷华州所有的互联网担供商句可使用“连接美国基金”(Connect America Funding) 。
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