The custom is for people to try and eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight. Those who are successful can make a wish.

这个习俗是让人们在午夜钟声敲响时试着吃12颗葡萄。那些成功做到这一点的人就可以许个愿。

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"I wish it happens to you people, so you go through hell," he snapped at the media throng as he unloaded bags of shopping from his car.

“我希望这件事发生在别人身上，你才知道什么叫地狱一样的日子，”他对着记者们怒气冲冲地说，一边从车子里拿出购物袋。

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Mr McKinnon is accused of serious crimes and the us has a lawful right to seek his extradition, as we do when we wish to prosecute people who break our laws.

麦金农先生被指控犯下了严重的罪行，并且美国具有寻求引渡他的合法权利，正如，当我们想要起诉违反我国法律的罪犯时，我们也会这样做。

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Instead, Romney opened his remarks by repeating the now familiar charge that President Barack Obama has broken promises to the American people as if voters only wish that the man who gave them health care and financial reform had also passed cap and trade.

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In general the law is biased toward allowing people to leave assets as they wish even if the wish seems silly.

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For virtually anyone who has lived in Japan, none of these revelations the brutality, the cynicism, the pathetic impotence of good people who wish to change the system comes as the slightest surprise.

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