Another time, he cancelled a date with his girlfriend at the last minute telling her he had to get a new battery for his truck.

还有一次，他在约会前的最后一刻取消了约会，跟女朋友说他得给卡车换一块新电池。

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Colds mutate even while they're infecting you, and new strains pop up so often that by the time drug-makers create a vaccine against one variation, the serum is already out of date.

即使在感染你的时候，感冒病毒也会发生变异，而且新的病毒毒株经常出现，以至于当制药商研制出针对其中一种变异的疫苗时，血清已经过时了。

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I bought a set of the new stamps on the date of issue.

我在新邮票发行的当天就买了一套。

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Borman and Lovell continued to circle the Earth, day after day, as workers hurried to meet the new launch date.

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The two sides were hoping to get a new treaty in place by December 5 the date of START-One's expiration.

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No date has been set for the parliament vote. Nepal has had 17 new governments in the past 19 years, since the country's pro-democracy movement started in 1990.

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In tabulating year-to-date new-car sales he assumed that states having greater than average new-car sales growth rate reflect a more robust economy than those having below average growth, and would in turn be more likely to vote for the incumbent, and vice-versa.

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New York (CNN) -- The National Park Service announced that there is no projected reopening date for New York's iconic Ellis Island due to extensive damage it sustained during Superstorm Sandy last October.

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Eventually he persuaded Jagger to forego the Rio beach gig for a double date at New York's Beacon Theatre.

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