The Public Utilities Commission inspects us once a year.
公用设施委员会每年到我们这里视察一次。
She informed us that eighteen members of the staff had left during the preceding year.
她当时告知我们，18位教职员在此前的一年里离开了。
The new exhibit will tour a dozen US cities next year.
这批新展品明年将在美国十二个城市巡回展出。
It is estimated that to meet the 2050 challenge, investment must double to 83 billion US dollars a year.
据估计，为了应对2050年的挑战，投资必须翻一番，达到每年830亿美元。
Computer competence will approach 100% in US urban areas by the year 2005, with Europe and Japan not far behind.
到2005年，美国城市地区的计算机能力将达到100%，欧洲和日本紧随其后。
Over the past year, the human voice has helped guide us over the ups and downs of what was certainly a stormy time.
在过去的一年里，人类的声音帮助我们度过了暴风雨时期的起起落落。
If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing?
如果连我们当中最注重健康的人一整年的睡眠水平都有这么大的波动，那么我们其他人会损失多少睡眠呢？
For some of us, we roll that dreamy film in our heads just because it is the beginning of the New Year, but we are serious about making changes.
对于我们中的一些人来说，我们在脑海中放映那部梦幻般的电影，只是因为它是新年的开始，但我们是认真地想要做出改变。
This year, there are also students from Mexico, the US, Germany, and Turkey.
今年，还有来自墨西哥、美国、德国和土耳其的学生。
Online shopping has become a major force in retailing this year with more than US$1 billion in Christmas season sales, industry analysts say.
行业分析师说，网上购物在今年零售业超过10亿美元的圣诞节销售中已成为主要力量。
There is an unusual holiday in the US that falls on the fourth Thursday of April every year.
每年4月的第四个星期四，美国有一个不寻常的节日。
Today it exceeds any country but Japan, where industrial employees log 2,155 hours a year, compared with 1,951 in the US, and 1,603 in the former West Germany.
如今，它已超过了除日本以外的任何国家。日本的工业员工每年工作2155小时，而美国的这一数据为1951小时，前西德为1603小时。
The scale of the searches has been increased dramatically since 1992, when the US Congress voted NASA $10 million per year for ten years to conduct a thorough search for extra-terrestrial life.
自1992年，美国国会计划在未来10年里每年为美国国家航空航天局投入1,000万美元，用于彻底搜寻外星生命体以来，搜寻的规模开始大幅增长。
In the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approved a bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related behaviour.
在美国，众议院科学委员会已经批准了一项法案，规定每年拨款1000万美元用于研究与能源相关的行为。
Late in 2019, it was announced that US actor James Dean, who died in 1955, will star in a Vietnam War film scheduled for release later this year.
2019年底，有消息称，1955年去世的美国演员詹姆斯·迪恩将出现在一部越南战争电影中，该片定于今年晚些时候上映。
The poverty rate among women in the US rose to 14.5% last year.
去年美国女性的贫困率上升到14.5%。
The US Department of Transportation says Americans drove nearly 3,150 billion miles last year.
美国交通部表示，美国人去年驾车行驶距离达到近3.15万亿英里。
The US Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.
美国邮政总局今天宣布，由于收入下降，总局正在考虑在明年关闭大约3700家邮局。
You are also invited to join us on our prayer days (this year, June 6 to June 14 inclusive).
你也受邀加入我们的祷告日（今年从6月6日（含）至6月14日（含））。
My mother and I took Adelheid's little year-old baby, Heidi, to live with us.
我和妈妈带着阿得海特一岁的小宝贝海蒂和我们住在一起。
The notion of success haunts us: we spend million every year reading about the rich and famous, learning how to "make a fortune in real estate with no money down" and "dressing for success".
成功的概念一直萦绕着我们：我们每年花费百万阅读有关富人和名人的书籍，学习如何“在房地产上赚大钱而不用首付”，以及“如何打扮可以成功”。
"They're the same as us," said Dickon, "only they have to build their homes every year."
“它们和我们一样，”狄肯说，“只是它们每年都要重建家园。”
This year we decided to let an experienced travel agent do our vacation planning for us.
今年，我们决定让一家有经验的旅行社为我们做度假计划。
The schoolmaster told us that there was to be a flower show for the school children this year, and that an old gentleman would give prizes to the best arranged wild flowers.
校长告诉我们，今年将为学校的孩子们举办一场花展，一位老先生将为精心布置的野花颁奖。
You did something similar for us last year—we'd be happy to have the same menu again.
你们去年为我们做了类似的事情，我们很高兴能再有同样的菜单。
Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care.
如果你不小心的话，明年我们中的一个会娶走你美丽的公主。
Every year a few colleges and universities in the US attract attention because they've managed to book high-profile speakers.
美国每年都有一些学院和大学引人注目，因为他们成功地邀请到了著名的演讲者。
"It took a seven-year-old to tell us what was," he explained.
他解释说：“一位七岁的小家伙告诉了我们是什么意思。”
All of us were puzzled by the puzzling questions raised by a six-year-old boy.
我们都被一个六岁男孩提出的令人费解的问题困住了。
For anyone who doubts that the texting revolution is upon us, consider this: The average 13-to 17-year-old sends and receives 3,339 texts a month—more than 100 per day, according to the Nielsen Co.
如果有人对短信革命的到来表示怀疑，那就想想看：据尼尔森公司的数据，13至17岁的人平均每月收发3339条短信——每天超过100条。
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