Just when I opened my MSN, a news came out which said, "2008 is the longest year of this century, it has 366 days and 1 second". 2008 is such a special year which has a leap year and a leap second.

MSN刚打开，弹出的一条新闻就引起了我的关注，“2008成世纪最长年366天零1秒”。2008年是闰年，共有366天，2008年同时又闰秒，比正常年份多了1秒，因此“两闰”加起来就有366天零1秒。

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Summer begins on the longest day of the year.

夏天开始于一年中最长的一天。

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Unluckily, Xu became seriously ill during his last and longest journey, a 4-year trip through the Southwest of China.

不幸的是，徐在他最后也是最长的一次旅行中病倒了，这是他在中国西南地区进行的为期4年的旅行。

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The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

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But priests ordinarily only wrote detailed descriptions of diseases when what they saw was noteworthy, and it is intriguing that the description of the doctor's illness in the parish book is one of the longest of the year.

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Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.

BBC: Finland's summer feast

Toronto will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight year, the longest streak of futility in franchise history, but DeRozan already has high hopes for next year, when he and Gay will line up together for a full season.

WSJ: DeRozan scores 36 as Raptors beat Nets 93-87