This has been a lean year for business.

今年是业务上的歉收年。

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The crops suffered from insect plague this year, it will definitely be a lean year.

今年庄稼遭了虫灾，肯定是个歉岁了。

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Dongfeng lean year has been negative, said worries that hate, the number of installments moment, when the only hope return.

一年已负东风瘦，说愁说恨，数期数刻，只望归时。

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But you have some outs, short of terminating the plan, to reduce contributions in a lean year.

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But, unlike his fellow-villagers, he was renowned for having a deficit: he had been born in a lean year, and, to make matters worse, an estranged aunt had once lifted him from his crib and praised Heaven for what a gorgeous, fat, rosy baby he was thereby sealing forever his fate to be generally impoverished, crippled, struck down and taken by the Devil at some unexpected time, in some terrifying way.

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"I'm not Mr. Anti-Boston, " said Michael Tamarro, a lean 41-year-old Rhode Island physics professor who started the Exeter race.

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