But a trend of weather intensity, and oddity, grows. Droughts linger longer. Hurricanes hit harder. Snowstorms strike long after winter should have ended. World record hailstones fall.

持续干旱，超强飓风，冬季早已过去却遭遇暴雪袭击，猛烈程度创下世界之最的冰雹袭击，气候型态变得越来越难以捉摸。

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In case you haven't noticed, there's quite a heat wave happening in several parts of the world, including along the East Coast of the US where temperatures hit record highs yesterday.

也许你没有注意到，世界上的一些地方正被热浪侵袭，其中包括美国的东海岸，昨天那里的气温打破了历史高温记录。

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He once drank 38 bottles of budweiser within a world record time, came home and asked, "honey, would you please take off your glasses so that I can hit right to your face?"

他曾在喝了世界纪录38百威啤酒瓶，回家问他：“亲爱的，请你脱下你的眼镜，让我打你的脸的权利？”

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The title came in the first year of the Yankees' new Japan's Hideki Matsui was voted the Series' Most Valuable Player after he hit 615 with three home runs and eight runs batted in (RBI), including a World Series record-tying 6-RBI performance in Game 6.

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Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization has said.

BBC: Greenhouse gases hit record high

Sinclair had also had a hit record the previous year when he was the lead voice on the Scotland football team's World Cup record We Have a Dream.

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The future of clean tech is already looking bright, as the world's solar power capacity just hit a record 101 gigawatts, and researchers found a new way to charge batteries by harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves from thin air.

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