First, it was to give thanks for the past years crops, and secondly, to share in the joy of the marriage with family and friends.

第二，与家人和朋友一起分享结婚的快乐。

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He has been collecting every possible material about Dai Ailian for the past years and he was excited to know that the Embassy had helped to find those recordings.

多年来他一直多方寻找、尽力搜集有关戴爱莲的资料，这次中国使馆帮助他实现了愿望，感到非常激动。

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For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.

三年来他一直受雇当消防员。

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For the past four years, Al Wiman has organized a monthly science cafe for the Saint Louis Science Center in Missouri.

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And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

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I've been taking the train for the past, say, give and(or) take six years and I've always loved it.

我以前一直坐火车，大约6年里都乘坐它，我一直很喜欢它。

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Having been in power for the past 12 years (and for most of the past century), the Social Democrats also had a privileged position as natural rulers of the country.

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Sarah and three colleagues have been preparing for the challenge for the past two years, mainly by running along the beach at Weston-super-Mare.

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Samantha Ralston, who lives nearby, said she had been lobbying for the park for the Corinium Via estate for the past two years and the delay was "complete nonsense".

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