Today, most women expect at least a one-carat diamond, while just five years ago a half-carat stone would have sufficed.

现在，大多数女性都会希望买至少一克拉的钻石，而仅仅五年前，半克拉的钻石就足够满足她们了。

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Buying a house is not a solution to finding somewhere to live. A house is a kind of wealth just like diamond rings.

买房子其实不是解决居住问题，房子是一种财富，就像钻石戒指一样。

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If you picture happiness and everything great in your life as a diamond, then any negative things that may happen are just the setting that makes this diamond shine only brighter.

如果你想想快乐和每件事情都像钻石，那么任何负面的事情的发生也仅仅是让钻石更加闪亮。

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Though smaller than the Hope Diamond, gemologists say the Cullinan Diamond is just as beautiful.

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He always was concerned about money. For example, he would put on a jeweler's glass to examine the diamond on a wealthy woman he had just met.

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He says diamond processing is just one third of what it was last year.

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Ms. VASHTI BUNYAN: (Singing) Just another diamond day, just a blade of grass, just another bale of hay where the horses pass.

NPR: British Folk Music, Revived

But a smaller and more unlikely musical revival can be traced to the reissue five years ago of a strange little record called "Just Another Diamond Day" by a woman named Vashti Bunyan.

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One of the surviving chicks has been named Olympia, while the other two, which hatched just before the Diamond Jubilee weekend, have been dubbed Jubilee Jack and Queenie.

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