Economists reported in twenty-ten that the worst recession since the nineteen-thirties had ended. Americans began to spend more as the year ended.

经济学家2010年报告称，自二十世纪三十年代以来的最严重衰退已经过去，美国人在今年年终已经开始扩大消费。

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Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice melted away.

有一些变暖是自然发生的。随着上一个冰河时代的结束和冰的融化，我们已经经历了长达20，000年的变暖过程。

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But the year ended with a record-breaking December, as people bought consoles and games for Christmas.

然而，在12月，这一年的最后时节，销售量终于突破了以往的记录，这是因为人们买了很多的游戏机和游戏来度过圣诞节。

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As the year ended, UN Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi shuttled between Damascus and Moscow, and there was a trip to the Russian capital by Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.

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The new year will begin rather as the old one ended, with a Merkel-Sarkozy meeting, on January 9th, to prepare the way for yet another EU summit on January 30th.

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Per-store inventory (including merchandise sitting at its warehouses) was 10% lower in the fiscal year ended Jan. 30, 2010 than the prior year, even as same store sales at the combined T.

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