I was very tired after a heavy week of year-end work but all I wanted was to go back to Hikkaduwa, do a little bit of reading as before, walk on the beach, and talk to my friend, the sea.

年底时我整整忙碌了一周，疲惫不堪，但是我脑子里就想回到Hikkaduwa，与从前一样看会儿书，在沙滩上漫步，与我的大海朋友攀谈。

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Many common words, such as the names for the days of the week and the months of the year, also come from mythology.

许多常见的单词，比如星期几、月份的名称，也来自神话。

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When parents talk with children about "what we did today" or "last week" or "last year", they guide the children's formation of a framework for talking about the past.

当父母与孩子谈论“我们今天做了什么”、“上周做了什么”或“去年做了什么”时，他们在引导孩子构造一个谈论过去的框架。

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In Saudi Arabia, officials are preparing for the Hajj, which starts this year during the last week of November.

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Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

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I don't know. I have got to see some of the shows at Fashion Week this year.

我不知道。我得去看看今年时装周的展示 。

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But mostly he talked about one week in 1942, the first week of the year, the week he met my grandmother, made his best friend, and killed two Germans.

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Up until the final week of the year, this penultimate week set the download record with 857 million downloads.

FORBES: Apple iOS and Google Android Enjoy An Appy New Year

Kazakhstan's peculiar style of democracy was on display in the last week of a year in which its chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was supposed to show the world that the oil-rich country could live up to international standards of democracy and human rights.

ECONOMIST: Nursultan Nazarbayev, very nearly eternal