A dear friend of mine was visiting her parents, at a remote American farm, for their big annual party.

我的一个好朋友去探望她的父母，他们住在美国偏远的农场里，举办一年一度的大型聚会。

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"I HOPE my dear," said Mr. Bennet to his wife as they were at breakfast the next morning, "that you have ordered a good dinner today, because I have reason to expect an addition to our family party."

第二天吃过早饭的时候，班纳特先生对他的太太说：“我的好太太，我希望你今天的午饭准备得好一些，因为我预料今天一定有客人来。”

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Mum: Dear, I bought a white shirt for your birthday party.

妈妈：亲爱的，我为你过生日买了一件白色衬衫。

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He points out that focusing the fiscal argument on (Labour) investment versus (Tory) cuts cost his party dear at the election in May 2010, since most voters accepted the need for cuts in some form.

ECONOMIST: Political memoirs

Dear college students, word to the wise: avoid party themes and costumes that involve mocking a particular ethnicity, country, religious group, or type of people.

FORBES: Dear College Students, Please Stop Taking Photos Of Your Inappropriately-Themed Frat Parties

The Republican Party's nativist rejection of immigration reform has clearly cost it dear.

ECONOMIST: The presidency