我们都是出生在双数年份的同一个月的午夜前后（她是晚上十一点四十五分，我是在凌晨一点一十五分）； 我们都学过竖笛；

We learnt that both of us had been born around midnight [she at 11.45 p.m., I at 1.15 a.m.] in the same month of an even-numbered year.

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“鉴于以上这些因素，如果今年不是一个飓风活动频繁的年份，我们不仅会感到万分惊讶，而且还出了个大洋相，”他说。

"Given all those factors, we'll eat a lot of crow and be very surprised if this is not a very active year," he says.

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从2004年开始，在给定的年份中全世界因结核病而病倒的人口百分比不再增长，随后开始缓慢下降。

Beginning in 2004 the percentage of the world's population that became ill with TB in a given year flattened and then began a slow decline.

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