I had assumed our babies would SAP us of our strength and kill any hope of training through the brutal New England winter for the Boston Marathon.

我甚至假设宝宝会吸干我们的力气，把在寒冷的新英格兰的冬季为备战波士顿马拉松而进行训练的一点儿希望给抹杀掉。

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Springs represents hope. Summer is full of passion. Autumn brings the happiness of harvest. Winter prepares for a New Year.

春天代表希望，夏天充满热情，秋天带来丰收的喜悦，冬天则为新的一年准备着。

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Dear Joe, I hope you will have children to love, and that some little fellow will sit in this chimney corner of a winter night, who may remind you of another little fellow gone out of it for ever.

亲爱的乔，我希望你们生一个孩子，你们可以爱他；在冬日的夜晚，这个小家伙可以坐在火炉的旁边，这便提醒你想到曾经有过另外一个小家伙也在这儿坐过，虽然这已永远成为过去。

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For their part, the squatters hope to take advantage of a French law preventing authorities from evicting tenants during the winter months.

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Sometime around when Satan starts looking for his winter woollies I expect that will be but a man can hope, eh?

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Mr Justice MacDuff said Mr Winter had no hope of defending the damages claims against 13 claimants but left it open for him to argue that Mr Wembridge was partly at fault.

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For years the Conservatives used the Winter of Discontent to warn voters not to trust Labour again. they hope to do the same with debt, the banks and that obscure rate few of us understand, called LIBOR.

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