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The new Japanese first lady has made headlines in the past for tales of her alien encounters: in a book published last year, she wrote about an extraterrestrial experience some 20 years ago when she said her soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus while her body was asleep.

这位新的第一夫人在去年因为外星人遭遇而成为了头条：她在去年出版的一本书中写了她20年前的一次外星旅行的经验，她说她的灵魂乘坐着三角形的UFO到达了火星，而当时她的肉身正在睡觉。

Trade in goods between our two nations has grown to $285 billion a year, and U.S.

我们两国去年的贸易，已经增长到了2850亿美元，仅去年一年，美国对中国的出口就增长了21%。

Particularly, The Tourism Bureau of Egypt which wowed the audience with the fascinating skirt dance last year has expanded their stand this year to 108 square meters; The fashion-labeled Hong Kong and South Korea have also expanded their stands to 126 and 135 square meters respectively to create a wonderful "journey" for the audience.

同时，现场转裙舞表演深受去年观众欢迎的埃及旅游局也在今年大力投入，展台面积增至108平方米；享有时尚流行、炫动缤纷美誉的中国香港和韩国也在去年基础上扩大展位，面积分别达到126和135平方米，为观众全力营造美妙的旅程体验。

But there is one bit of inflation that can't be written off so confidently: oil prices, after falling more than a hundred dollars a barrel last year, have roughly doubled this year, sending gasoline prices up more than sixty per cent and leaving Americans paying about a dollar more per gallon than they were in December.

但有一个通货膨胀不能忽视的是：油价。在去年每桶下降100多美元后，今年油价却是去年的两倍，使油价价格上涨了60%以上，美国人现在每加仑所付油价比12月份多出1美元以上。

But there is one bit of inflation that can't be written off so confidently: oil prices, after falling more than a hundred dollars a barrel last year, have roughly doubled this year, sending gasoline prices up more than sixty per cent and leaving Americans paying about a dollar more per gallon than they were in December.

但不可以自信地完全排除通缩的可能：在从去年100美元一桶的高位降下来后，今年油价几乎翻了一番，使得汽油价格上升了60美元一桶，使得美国国民较去年12月份每加仑汽油多付近1美元。

First half of last year, is located three Adriatic slope of the "Sunshine Coast" had 3,000 properties for sale / m starting to sell, while the second half of last year, Sea slope of housing prices on the up 20%.

去年上半年，位于三亚海坡的&阳光海岸&的待售地产为3000 /平方米开始销售，而去年下半年，海坡的住房价格增长了20 ％。

President Bush and his wife paid over 220,000 dollars in federal taxes last year. The first family made nearly 925,000 dollars. That includes a-150,000-dollar advance the first lady received for the children's book she coauthored with her daughter, Jenna.

布什总统与其夫人去年缴了超过22000美圆的联邦税款，&第一家庭&去年收入将近925000美圆，其中包括因第一夫人与起女儿jenna合著出书而取得的15000美圆的版税。

Phoenix police investigated more than 350 kidnappings last year, a 40 percent increase from the year before.

去年菲尼克斯警署办理了超过400起绑架案，比去年增加40%。

Output of coal was 4 times as great as that of last year.

煤产量比去年增加了3倍(是去年的4倍)。

The ACFTU forced Wal-Mart to allow it to establish union branches in its stores in China last year – a breakthrough at a company that has aggressively prevented unionisation at home in the US.

去年，中华全国总工会迫使沃尔玛允许它在沃尔玛中国商店内建立工会分支机构。对于一家在其本土一直强硬阻止成立工会的企业而言，中华全国总工会去年的行动，可谓取得了一次突破。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。