这位老太太总以她花园中那棵巨大的玫瑰树为荣。她会津津有味地告诉你她头一次结婚时，从意大利带回来的一根枝条，是怎么样长成参天大树的。

The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married.

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中国的父母总喜欢以“月”为女儿取名，为的是希望她们像月亮一样可爱。

Chinese parents often name their daughters after the moon, in hope that they will be as lovely as the moon.

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到2007年，杜邦公司通过提高能效一年节省22亿美元，和它那年公布的总利润一样多。

By 2007, DuPont was saving $2.2 billion a year through energy efficiency, the same as its total declared profits that year.

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