While China rings in the lunar Year of the Rabbit this week, Vietnamese are purring about the coming Year of the Cat.

本周，我国迎来兔年，越南人民却正热切盼望猫年的到来。

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While most of Asia celebrated the good fortune promised by the Year of the Rabbit, party-goers in Vietnam celebrated what they know as the Year of the Cat.

在大部分亚洲人庆祝兔年会带来好运的同时，越南参加舞会的人则庆祝他们的猫年。

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More than a year later, the new residents of the Gale's old home in Ungarra, South Australia, found a strange cat hanging around.

就这样走了一年多……某天，南澳安加拉谢瑞旧居的新住户珍·杭碧(Jenn Humby)发现一只奇怪的猫在房前瞎转悠。

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The next year she starred in a film version of the Tennessee Williams play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

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from the Broadway musical Les Miserables. The unemployed church volunteer from Blackburn,Scotland, who lives alone with her cat, promptly became the unlikeliest star of the year.

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Of the foals High Brow Cat has sired, about 60% or 1, 323 have posted earnings. (Pictured: Austin Shepard on a son of High Brow Cat.) High Brow Cat was named Sire of the Year every year from 2003 through 2012.

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So after a lackluster year of falling profits and bad news, Nintendo seems to have pulled the cat out of the bag in time for Christmas.

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Now in their sixth year, the Cats Protection's National Cat Awards are the UK's biggest celebration of the real-life stories of companionship, bravery and survival among the UK's 10 million cats.

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