Firecrackers sound break old trouble, fireworks to celebrate the New Year good omen profusion.

爆竹声声打破旧日的烦恼，礼花缤纷迎来新年的吉兆。

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It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

But let's go back to the Old South, this Old South that got the United States in so much trouble.

但是让我们回到内战前的南方,这个让美国陷入这么多的麻烦的地方

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Old friends had trouble recognizing him.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

This week, despite New Labour's avowed indifference to the plight of old industries in trouble, the agriculture minister, Nick Brown, promised farmers some respite.

ECONOMIST: Farming

The nine-year-old who has trouble sounding out simple words and his classmate who is reading A Tale of Two Cities for fun sit in the same classroom day after miserable day, the one so frustrated by tasks he cannot do and the other so bored that both are near tears.

WSJ: 'Real Education'

In the stands, Paul Klink had looked at his 52-year-old wife and spotted trouble.

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