For anyone who doubts that the texting revolution is upon us, consider this: The average 13-to 17-year-old sends and receives 3,339 texts a month—more than 100 per day, according to the Nielsen Co.

如果有人对短信革命的到来表示怀疑，那就想想看：据尼尔森公司的数据，13至17岁的人平均每月收发3339条短信——每天超过100条。

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It is said that every year on the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon wakes up from its winter sleep and raises its head.

据说每年阴历第二个月的第二天，龙从冬眠中苏醒，抬起了头。

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To achieve this, name the files with the year, month, and date, in that order, using zeros to pad out the values.

为实现这点，可以按顺序使用年、月、日来对文件命名，并使用零来补齐空缺。

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Now,a new study shows that stock returns during the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan, vary significantly from those at other times of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Self-amortizing means that you're not just paying the interest every year -or every month--you're paying interest plus principal.

分期偿还是指,每年或者每个月,你不仅偿还利息,还要偿还利息加上部分本金

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He thinks that last month - on the one-year anniversary of widespread street protests in Iran- many journalists there were reliving some of the stress of last year's election crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Meanwhile Carpetright said that profits for the financial year that ends this month would be down on a year earlier.

BBC: Halfords and Carpetright cut profits estimates

The right date to make this change is the beginning of the month that contains the year's 100th day: April 1st.

ECONOMIST: A 24-hour day is inefficient

The next time you read that NASA declares this or that day, month or year the hottest since yadda, yadda, yadda you might want to check the source.

FORBES: NASA's Inconvenient Ruse: The Goddard Institute For Space Studies