I find that strangely reassuring and troubling at the same time because I think we like to think how special we are.

我认为这种说法特别令人放心,同时也令人苦恼,因为我们总想着自己多么特别。

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But we do have certain employee sales, some special sales after vacation time

但是我们有雇员大减价，假期之后一些特别的大甩卖，

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Then there are certain holy days: and they are separated and demarcated from common time by special rules that mark them as different.

然后是一些神圣日：,和普通的时间,被一些特殊的判定它们不同的规则所区分开。

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Yeah, it's kind of a color that you throw in from time to time for special effect.

对,它就如同制作视觉特效时,添加的色彩

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Now, there's nothing special about annual-- that's the time it take the Earth to go around the sun, but it doesn't have any relevance to finance-- but we are just accustomed to using that.

这里所谓的一年也没什么特别,就是地球绕太阳一圈的时间,和金融没什么关系,我们只是习惯这么用

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