This year water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze are unusually high.

今年长江中下游的水位高得不正常。

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Residents were warned not to be extravagant with water, in view of the low rainfall this year.

鉴于今年降雨量少，居民被告诫不得浪费用水。

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The company has already been in hot water over high prices this year.

该公司今年已陷入了高价的困境中。

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It is part of a larger ten-year effort called the Water and Livelihoods Initiative.

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We take in a lot of food and water everyday, every year, and yet most of us our weight stays remarkably stable over that period of time for adults despite how much we eat and how much we drink.

日复一日年复一年,我们都摄入大量的食物和水,但我们绝大部分人的体重,在成年期都保持得很稳定,不管我们怎样大吃大喝

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A World Bank report issued this year says the average Israeli gets four times as much water as the average Palestinian.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Americans drank fewer than two gallons of bottled water per year, and almost all of that was in the form of water from big office coolers .

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The farmers say that, on average, their households consume about 3, 000 gallons of water a year.

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As it turned out, General Mills blew everyone else out of the water this year.

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