Last summer she began telling friends that a New Year marriage was in the cards.

去年夏天她开始通知朋友们她很可能在新年结婚。

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When traveling in Europe during the last summer vacation, we packed a lot of sightseeing in two weeks.

上次暑假在欧洲旅行的时候，我们在两周内游览了众多景点。

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Did you visit the Television Tower when you had your vacation in Shanghai last summer?

去年夏天你在上海度假时参观过东方之珠吗？

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She spent many days last summer yelling at her television,she says, in reaction to the health care debate.

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I was part of a huge conference last summer in West Africa on the end of the slave-trade in Ghana, and we had representatives we had people participating in that conference from 15 or 16 different African countries.

我去年夏天曾参加过西非的一个大型集会,纪念是加纳奴隶交易的结束,会议上有来自各国的代表,有15或16个非洲国家的代表,参与的这次大型会议

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That is 300 more than during the last summer Deaflympics in Melbourne in 2005.

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The three-meter (nine-foot) invertebrate was filmed from a manned submersible during one of 100 dives in the Pacific last summer in a joint expedition by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Discovery Channel and Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science.

NPR: Giant Squid Filmed In Ocean Depths For 1st Time

And finally, there was the U.K. government's reaction to the riots last summer in which social networks and instant-messaging services were blamed for spreading dissent.

WSJ: Is the U.K.'s Love Affair With the Internet at Risk?

As we move into the last half of the summer in the western world, markets do tend to become calmer and volumes are lighter as traders and investors take family vacations and tend to focus less on the markets.

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