By the time we graduated from our school, we have been close friends for more than ten years.

到我们毕业的时候，我们已经是十多年的好朋友了。

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The percentage of American working mothers with school-age children has almost doubled since 1970 - from 38 per cent to close to 70 per cent.

自1970年以来，家有学龄孩子的美国职业母亲比例几乎翻了一番——从38%升至70%。

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As I write this, summer is drawing to a close, the school year is starting up, and Twitter's servers are continuously pumping out updates from geeks and non-geeks around the world.

在撰写本文时，夏季即将结束，新的学年就要开始，Twitter的服务器上不断涌现出世界各地的网虫和非网虫们发布的更新。

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The new building will take some pupils from the former David Lister school, which is planned to close in 2015 after going into special measures.

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But plans by Edinburgh City Council to close the school have provoked an outcry from its supporters.

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His two children had enrolled in the local school, and with Holiday's plans to relocate his family to Utah, the school's enrollment would drop from 71 to 69, which meant it would have to close and its teachers would have to find elsewhere to work.

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