Today was a really tough day, but I have to congratulate Na Li because she's really grown up fastly this year and she played really well.

今天确实是个艰难的日子，但是我得对李娜表示庆祝，因为她这一年来成长飞快，打得的确很好。

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Because of the cold weather the crops are later this year.

因天气寒冷，农作物今年成熟得晚。

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I have not worried so much this year, partly because I have had other things to think about.

今年我不那么担心了，在一定程度上是因为我还有其他的事情要考虑。

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Krall says she was influenced to make this album because of a trip she made to Brazil last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

We mention this only because we're just going to press with the latest incarnation of this this year.

我们提及这只因为,今年我们继续研究它的新版本。

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because I played on until... what was, until this year, the worst soccer team in our school's history.

因为我踢球的时候，我们学校足球队处于最差的时代。

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And because this year, neither Obama nor McCain has a lock on Hispanic voters, even if it appears otherwise at the moment.

CNN: Commentary: Candidates wise to court Hispanic vote

Food rations are now being distributed in two-month instalments though some say that is because this year's bumper grain harvest has swollen stocks after two years of drought.

ECONOMIST: Iraq

Because this year London and the south-east can expect to prosper, while Scotland, Wales and northern England will do poorly, the gap in house prices will probably widen.

ECONOMIST: The housing market