"We had a young man die this past summer and they put his cell phone in the casket for the viewing and it rang constantly," he says.
有个年轻人在刚过去的夏天里去世了,亲人把他的电话放入棺材里,方便他查看和手机经常接通。
The poll of 2, 000 people, for savings bank ING Direct, revealed the number of Britons taking a summer holiday has fallen sharply in the past three years.
根据荷兰国际集团调查的2000人存款的研究显示, 三年来,在夏天旅游度假的英国人的数目呈现大幅度下滑。
The average summer temperature at McMurdo Station, the American research base on Ross Island, has inched up 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 30 years, records show, more than the global average.
麦克默多站(McMurdoStation)是位于罗斯岛(Ross Island)美国研究基地,研究记录显示,在过去的三十年间,这里的夏季平均气温上升了摄氏1.5度,超出了全球平均升温幅度。
It is not freezing but even in summer the wind is bitingly cold and we can smell the bad breath of a humpback whale as it groans past our bows on Sermilik Fjord.
天气还不是最冷的时候,但即使在夏天,风也是寒冷刺骨。 当驼背鲸哼哼着经过我们的船头向塞尔米利克峡湾游去时,我们闻得到它的口臭。
Satellite observations since 1979 have shown that amount of ice that survives the summer is getting smaller; declines have been especially dramatic in the past decade.
1979年以来的卫星观测显示在夏季依然存在的冰的数量正在减少,在过去十年减少的速度尤其快。
The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.
图片是过去十年间由美国间谍卫星拍摄的,它们证实了,在最近几年,大面积高纬度区域在夏天失去了冰层的覆盖。
A close friend of mine who has been job hunting for the past six months or so is talking about taking July and August "off, " on the theory that employers don't hire anyone in the summer anyway.
他的理由是,在夏天,雇主不会聘用任何人。 但我就是在去年八月中旬获得我目前这份工作的,所以,我清楚地知道,公司夏季不招聘,这个观点不一定永远是正确的。
The film, first announced in 2008, will be titled "Behind the Candelabra" and start production next summer; it was previously scheduled to shoot this past spring.
影片初次宣布是在2008年,片名将定为:“光芒背后”,明年夏天将开始拍摄。先前是计划今年春天开机的。
In the past several years, a number of programs have sprouted to help children enjoy summer without losing the skills they gained during the academic year.
在过去几年,许多项目如雨后春笋般出现,来帮助儿童享受暑假,同时还帮助他们不丢掉在本学年所学的技能。
The United States, which had been unusually cool in the summer of 2009, was warm this past summer, except the Pacific Northwest, which was cooler than the 1951-1980 climatology.
美国2009年夏季和往常一样凉爽,但上个夏季也变暖和了。太平洋西北部是例外,这里比1951- 1980年的气候要凉快。
Sales of cars have fallen in the past month by 6 per cent and airline travel has been sharply lower this summer (although the Beijing Olympics might be the main cause).
上月的汽车销售下降了6%,而今年夏季航空旅行收入也大幅下降(不过,北京奥运会可能是主要原因)。
For two and a half months this past summer, senior economics major Joseph Baker interned with the FBI in Washington, D.C., and yes, it is OK to talk about it.
今年夏天,有两个半月时间,经济专业大四学生约瑟夫·贝克去了位于华盛顿特区的美国联邦调查局实习,而且——对,他还可以跟我们说说实习的情况。
In the past 20 years, it has happened only three times - summer of 1998, fall of 2008, fall of 2011.
在过去的20年中,这种情况只发生过三次,分别在1998年夏,2008年秋,以及2011年秋。
Since the summer, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns have all bought mortgage lenders; Lehman Brothers has acquired several in the past three years.
夏季至今,摩根·斯坦利、美林和贝尔斯坦都买入了房贷公司,雷曼兄弟过去三年内也收购了数家房贷公司。
Others - fewer in number, but now past the panic stage and plunged deeper and deeper into depression - graduated in summer 2008, nearly 18 months ago.
其他人——人数较少,但是现在过了恐慌阶段,却陷入越来越深的沮丧——毕业于2008年夏季,近十八个月之前。
That is now something in the past,” said Mr Hudak, who did not specify whether he usually drinks all that beer himself on the holiday weekend that marks the beginning of summer.
现在这都已经属于过去的事了。”Mr HUDAK说道,虽然我们仍不能确定他是不是也会在假日的周末一个人喝掉所有啤酒来庆祝夏季的开始。
For the past three years, the vast cap of shining-white ice covering the Arctic has melted away in summer to an area that would have been unbelievable just a decade ago.
过去三年内,在北极地区白皑皑冰盖已经在夏季大量地消减。
Balotelli signed for City in the summer of 2010 from Inter but has spoken in the past of his desire to play for Milan - and alongside Ibrahimovic - at some point in the future.
巴洛特利在2010年夏天从国际米兰转会来到曼城,但是在过去曾几次说过希望在将来能够为AC米兰踢球,并与伊布再次成为队友。
As you can tell from the cameras, the course is in fact filmed for reasons of distance education and your benefit for review; we've been working on this past summer what we dubbed cs50.
你们从大屏幕上可以看出来,该课程实际上是为远程教育拍摄的,你们能够在评论的过程中获益良多,今年夏天我们一直忙于cs50。
Winter passed, spring slowly in the past, the temperature is rising, that summer is not far away from us!
冬季已过,新春也慢慢过去,气温的不断上升,说明夏天已经离我们不远了!
In the past few weeks, I've jumped back and forth between summer clothes and warm sweaters.
过去几个星期以来,我在夏装和暖和的毛衣之间跳来跳去。
The prolific hit-man, who has registered 50 goals in the past two seasons, is reportedly on the summer wish-list of Barcelona and Real Madrid but seems to favour a move to England.
这位高产的锋线杀手在过去的两个赛季有50球入账,曾经有传闻说他希望在夏天出现在巴塞罗那和皇家马德里的求购名单上,但是现在看来他更喜欢去英格兰。
At age 65 he's getting up there in years, but he was a guy who was rumored to be very interested in coaching the Charlotte Bobcats this past summer before the team opted to hire Larry Brown.
现年65岁的他已经多年担当教练,在夏天,拉里·布朗入主山猫前,传言他非常感兴趣执教山猫,有望入主。
At age 65 he's getting up there in years, but he was a guy who was rumored to be very interested in coaching the Charlotte Bobcats this past summer before the team opted to hire Larry Brown.
现年65岁的他已经多年担当教练,在夏天,拉里·布朗入主山猫前,传言他非常感兴趣执教山猫,有望入主。
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