Before the new year, I helped my mother clean the rooms and wash our quilts.

新年前，我帮妈妈打扫房间、洗被子。

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Several days before the New Year, we begin to prepare for it.

在新的一年前几天，我们开始为它做准备。

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But that illusion is likely to be dispelled well before the New Year.

但这种幻象很可能在新年到来之前消散。

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In the Netherlands, it is illegal to explode firecrackers in the weeks before New Year's Day.

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Engineers say the closure of the Ignalina plant in the town of Visaginas happened on New Year's Eve shortly before midnight local time.

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President Barack Obama has said he would review diplomatic efforts with Iran at the end of this year, before pursuing possible new sanctions through the Security Council.

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It's because we saw it in a leak just before the new year.

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It's my fervent hope we will be able to conclude this inquiry before the New Year turns.

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The package that I offered to Speaker Boehner before we -- before the New Year would achieve that.

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