There's one thing that all New Year's Eve parties have in common: the countdown to midnight.

所有的除夕夜派对都有一个共同点：午夜倒计时。

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I was practicing my speech from eight o'clock to midnight.

我从八点到半夜一直在练习我的演讲。

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They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

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But I would choose to sit down for these particular projects right around midnight so that when I woke up my program was giving me the results I wanted.

我可能会,为了这些特殊的项目一直等到半夜,这样我醒来时,程序就能给我想要的结果。

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Well, yes, it's not cheap to take a taxi after midnight or taxi at all in London

是的，午夜之后打车很贵，或者伦敦的出租车就是很贵。

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They slept from 5pm to midnight, so that they were awake through the early-morning hours.

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The Nato mission formally comes to an end at one minute to midnight Libyan time (21:59 GMT) on Monday.

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