I got a letter from him which informed me of his progress just a little while ago.
不久前，我收到他的来信，在信里他告诉了我目前的进展。
You can do other things to improve your money situation while you're working on these three steps. A year ago, Leo Shared 73 debt elimination tips from Zen Habits readers.
在你进行这三个步骤时，你可以做些别的事情以提升你的财务状况，一年前，里奥从禅之习惯网的读者那儿分享了73条消减债务的小方法。
Yet despite the high price point, a trend toward buying smaller cars helped Mini volumes rise slightly in July from a year ago while BMW-branded models declined 15%.
尽管价格高昂，但购买小型车的市场潮流给迷你的销量带来了提振；7月份迷你销量同比略有增长，而宝马品牌销量同期下滑了15%。
I saw it running itself a little while ago, and now it has come creeping up from the other side.
刚才我就看见它在移动呢，现在它却又从另一边儿冒出来了。
The Daily Mail adds a study two years ago at Stirling University in Scotland found some kids didn't benefit at all from using the games while others shot from the bottom to the top of their classes.
每日邮报还报道了两年前苏格兰斯特灵大学的一项研究，表明一些孩子完全没有从电子游戏中受益，还有些孩子整节课都在玩游戏。
A while ago, on the anniversary of Gandhi's birth, I wrote my most popular article ever - 6 Key Lessons in Life from a 140 year Old Man.
不久前，就在甘地诞辰纪念日，我写下了至今最广为流传的文章——《从140岁的老人身上获得的6个重要启示》。
One summer night many years ago, while walking home from work, I heard the most joyous music emanating, like an aural glow, from the basement of a church a few blocks from the house where I grew up.
许多年前的一个夏夜，在我下班回家的途中，从离家不远的教堂地下室传出最欢快的音乐，犹如一束听觉之光。
California's median home price rose a robust 11.2% in February from the same period a year ago as fewer foreclosure properties sold, while the number of homes sold fell 3.8%.
2月份，加州的房产均价与去年同比上涨了11.2%，涨势强劲，这一时期抵押房产成交数量减少，房屋的成交量则下降了3.8%。
A little while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought that I was about to die, but it was from joy.
刚才有人来叫我们来的时候，我还感到我要死了，但那是快乐得要死。
I just had lunch with someone I worked for years ago and I just connected on LinkedIn with former colleagues I hadn't heard from in quite a while.
我刚刚和前几年一起共事的同事一起吃了顿饭，我刚在LinkedIn上给很久没有联系的大学同学发了封邮件。
This is a huge increase from six years ago, when 46% of drivers owned up to getting behind the wheel while tired.
这比六年前大幅增加，当时46%的司机疲劳驾驶。
While paying customers represent a small percentage of its overall user base, that number has grown as well, to 8.1 million at the end of June from 6.6 million a year ago.
虽然付费用户只占所有用户的一小部分，这个数字在6月底也增长到了810万，而一年前只有660万。
Patrick got a call from his father a while ago who wanted to find something on the web.
Patrick不久前接到他爸爸的一个电话，他爸爸想在网上找点东西。
The guy behind Now Do This came up with idea while eating breakfast, and his story reminds me of myself when I had a similar single-tasking revelation a few years ago. From the Now Do This blog
开发“现在就做这个”应用程序的家伙是在吃早饭时产生这个想法的，而他的故事也让我想起了自己在几年前同样被单任务哲学观所启发的经历。
Two weeks ago while I was downstairs having my breakfast spooning the last of my rice porridge I heard a loud crash coming from the upstairs bathroom.
两个礼拜前，当我在楼下吃早餐，用汤匙舀着最后一口米粥时，听到楼上的洗手间里传来一声响亮的撞击声。
The fact that 9.5% of spending now goes to prisons while only 5.7% goes to universities—25 years ago, prisons got 4% and universities 11%—is indeed a harsh indicator of California’s fall from grace.
而现在的财政预算中有9.5%划给监狱，大学只有5.7%。 （25年前，监狱系统有4%，大学有11%。）
A third of the UK population suffer from sleep-related problems, while the average person now sleeps for only seven hours a night, compared with almost nine a few decades ago.
英国三分之一人口有睡眠问题，现代人每晚平均睡眠时间是七个小时，而几十年前，差不多是九小时。
Years ago, while taking a woodworking course, I made it a practice to save the sawed-off odds and ends from my projects.
在几年前参加一个木工课程的时候，我养成了一个收集制作工件时锯下的小木块碎片的习惯。
A few months ago, my DVD player froze up while playing the first DVD in the "From the Earth to the Moon" series.
几个月前，我的DVD播放机在播放冻结了第一张DVD中的“从地球到月球”系列。
There is no money to refund to you, or that we 'kept from you' paypal already took the money back over a week ago while their fraudulent investigation is under way.
有没有钱退还给你，或者说我们贝宝“从你存”的钱已经花了一个多星期前回来，而他们的欺诈调查正在进行之中。
Two years ago, while exploring about Haruhi Suzumiya, Ihappened to discover that it was adapted from a book.
两年前，在四处搜寻凉宫春日的资料时，我偶然发现这部动画原来是由一本书改编而来的。
Hardware sales fell 37 percent from a year ago, while software sales slid 26 percent, NPD said. Sales of video game accessories declined 12 percent.
NPD称，硬件销售额与去年同期相比下跌37%；软件滑落26%。视频游戏附件的销售额下跌12%。
He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
他提醒我们，不久前速食快餐店，停用塑料发泡容器改用纸器，二恶英问题，即为其中原因之一。
He recalls the first monument his shop constructed this way-a sign still keeps an eye on while driving to and from work since it was installed twenty years ago.
他想起自己制作的第一个纪念碑标识就是用这种方式的，从安装好到现在已经有20年了，开车上下班的时候仍然能看到那个标识依旧如新。
Nothing, really, except for something I saw while fishing from a boat a few weeks ago in the South China Sea.
除了我几周前在南中国海海钓时看见的一样东西以外，还真的没有。
Nothing, really, except for something I saw while fishing from a boat a few weeks ago in the South China Sea.
除了我几周前在南中国海海钓时看见的一样东西以外，还真的没有。
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