As New Year approached, it was still a feeder pig and couldn't be sold in the market .

一直到快过年了，它还只是一头架子猪，没法拿到市场上卖。

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As the New Year approached, the school dining hall was closed. So were the restaurants outside school. Everyone was busy preparing for the festival.

临近新年，校内食堂关闭了，校外的饭店，基本都关门准备过年了。

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As the New Year approached, thousands of residents in Queensland, northeastern Australia, found themselves stranded by floodwaters from Tropical Cyclone Tasha.

随着新年的临近，澳大利亚东北部昆士兰的数千居民受到热带气旋塔莎带来的洪水影响而进退维谷。

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As a new year approached, Welch reached his breaking point.

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The jury had heard on Wednesday, during the opening of the case, that Mr Henderson has been in a restaurant with his girlfriend on New Year's Eve 2011 when Hazel Kent approached them.

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Throughout the 2000s, there were no one-year percentage increases in revenue that even approached the 64% increase generated from the new stadium effect.

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