The break from work really set me up for the new year.

放下工作稍事休息，的确使我更有精力在新的一年大干一场了。

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Election officials predict they'll set a new turnout record for an off-year election in Washington state.

选举官员预测，他们将在华盛顿州创下非大选年参加投票人数的新纪录。

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I set off for a new adventure in Alaska on the first day of the new year.

我在新年第一天出发去阿拉斯加进行一次新的冒险。

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A five-disc set of John Coltrane music was one of the year's best sellers, as well as new albums by Boney James, Chris Botti,Diana Krall, Harry Connick,Junior and Michael Buble.

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Throughout the Chinese New Year holidays, fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally set off to ward off evil spirits when ushering in the new year.

BBC: China media: New Year haze

He reached the semi-finals in Barcelona and this year set a new Northern Irish record at 100 metres.

BBC: London 2012 NI olympians dreaming of gold

This challenge is not like some giant set of New Year resolutions, we all know what happens to those.

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