Sir David Attenborough urged people to take part in a nationwide count of butterflies to help find out if the hot, dry spring has hit the insects.

大卫·爱登堡先生呼吁全国人民一起统计蝴蝶种类和数目，看看炎热干燥的春季是否对蝴蝶的生存造成了影响。

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Even so, that is a lot lower than was expected last spring, when forecasters thought that the claimant count would reach 2.1m by late 2009.

即便是这样，这比去年春季预计的要少得多，当时预测人士认为申请工作的人数在2009年晚些时候将达到210万。

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According to custom, each family will stay up to count down for the New Year on the eve of the Spring Festival.

按照传统，除夕晚上全家老少都要一起熬夜守岁，倒数新年。

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And because we passed advanced appropriations, when Washington politics threatens to shut down the government, as it did last spring, the veterans' medical care that you count on was safe.

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Count on it: The debate will resurface this spring, as proxies revealing 1999 pay become public.

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Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

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