今年

Chinoiserie is so much a part of the western fashion lexicon that even events such as this year's Beijing Olympics have not fuelled a mass revival but merely underlined the fact that we're all still longing to go Chinese.

"中国风"已经成为西方时尚字典中的常用词汇，以至于今年北京奥运这样的重大事件也并没有造成什么大规模风格回潮，而只是强调了一个事实，那就是我们都依然渴望走中国风路线。

My friend gave me such a Chipmunk gift this year.

我们朋友今年送给我一份名义上的礼物。

Everything is very well this year. I should be careful not to write up late in the evening and I should eat less seafood which has high cholesterin because it will increase the load of liver function.

今年一切都很好，我应该注意不要写作到很晚才睡，少吃一些海鲜等一些胆固醇高的食品，否则会增加肝功能负荷。

A study published this year found that women with a high intake of choline were 24 percent less likely to get breast cancer.

今年出版的一项研究发现，摄入维他命多的女性患乳腺癌的风险减少百分之二十四。

My favorite pop singer is Jay Chou, who is 29 years old, and he was born in Taiwan.

我最喜欢的流行歌手是周杰伦，他今年29岁，出生在台湾。

This Christmas, I sent a Christmas card to my friend.

今年圣诞节时，我寄了一张圣诞卡片给我的朋友。

To be more precise, this reporter received just one Christmas greeting card in the regular mail this year.

确切地说，我这个记者今年只收到了一张传统邮寄的圣诞卡。

It was during Christmastide of this year (1223) that the saint conceived the idea of celebrating the Nativity "in a new manner", by reproducing in a church at Greccio the praesepio of Bethlehem, and he has thus come to be regarded as having inaugurated the popular devotion of the Crib.

正是在Christmastide今年（ 1223 ）表示，圣的想法是庆祝耶稣"在一个新的方式"，由音响在教堂Greccio的praesepio伯利恒，他因此被视为具有落成全民奉献的垛。

Baroque music means those of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of composition that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to 1750, marked by chromaticism, strict forms, and elaborate ornamentation.

今年第九届"相约北京"更是通过系统化公益赠票、广场联欢、艺术展览、讲座和工作坊等丰富多彩的形式展开公益文化活动。

In the first half of this year, while exports to Germany, the UK, Japan and the US plummeted, China kept growing and sucked in increasing amounts of South African iron ore, chrome and other raw materials.

今年上半年，尽管南非向德国、英国、日本和美国的出口剧减，但对华出口持续增长，吸纳了越来越多的南非铁矿石、铬矿石和其它原材料。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。