On New Year's Eve,some communities in the United States hold what are called First Night celebrations.

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This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.

这是威廉巴特勒叶芝的《苇间风》,在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。

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The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.

现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

On New Year's morning, millions of television viewers watch the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena,California.

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On New Year's Day, after church we'll go out and sit in the goose pit and do some hunting for Canada geese and also ducks."

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"I usually sleep in because we stay up late on New Year's Eve.

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Joe is talking about America's best known celebration on New Year's Eve.

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In Southern California, the weather on New Year's Day might be cold.

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He died on New Year's Day, nineteen fifty-three.

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Norma Fiorentino's water well blew up on New Year's Day 2009, throwing cement slabs into the air.

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Engineers say the closure of the Ignalina plant in the town of Visaginas happened on New Year's Eve shortly before midnight local time.

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It was a tradition to open the White House on that day so the president could wish visitors a happy new year.

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The New York Times newspaper reports that,on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

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On Friday President Obama proposed tax credits for every new employee that a business hires this year.

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Next year's research and development budget calls for spending nearly two billion dollars on new space technologies.

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Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

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This week on our program, we go to New York City to visit the thirty-five year old Nuyorican Poet's Caf on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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Today, most people celebrate New Year's Day on January first.

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Lionel has also mentioned the possibility of reuniting later this year to begin work on a new Commodores album.

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Harold Leslie is a senior installation manager: "We've brought on several new people since the first of the year."

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So recently what we did last year we organized a workshop on formulating a new remote area policy.

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For the volunteers, the meticulous work will continue through New Year's Eve, and the colorful results will be on display early New Year's morning.

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Assistant Secretary Posner said the State Department expects to issue,by year's end, a new list of countries of particular concern on religious freedom, which would be subject to possible U.S.sanctions.

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There are a few efforts to do that. At the Fasotex factory, General Manager Grand is working on getting a new fleet of machines that would begin weaving cloth out of local cotton by next year.

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The offer of talks comes nearly a year after New Delhi virtually put on hold a peace dialogue between the two countries following last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, which India blamed on terrorists based in Pakistan.

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