I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.

我心中想着这位我从未谋面的女子，在四十多年前，从种下第一株水仙花球根开始，把她自己所想象的美丽和快乐带到一个隐蔽的山峰。

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But under pressure from matrons not much older than herself - for a fieldman's wages being as high at twenty one as at forty, marriage was early here - Tess at length consented to go.

但是她迫于年纪比她大不了多少的妇女的压力——因为一个种地的工人，在二十岁时挣的工钱同四十岁的工人挣的工钱一样多——苔丝最终还是同意去了。

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The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack sank many ships.

美国自1941年12月日本飞机偷袭美军在夏威夷珍珠港海军基地后，正式投入到第二次世界大战中，日本的这次偷袭击沉了美国许多战舰。

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They found that forty-one percent of the profiles chosen at random included information about alcohol or drug use.

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The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In nineteen eleven, a fire at a clothing factory in New York had taken the lives of one hundred forty-six people.

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The too short life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary (played by Tom Hanks), who died of colon cancer in 1998, at the age of forty-one, is replayed through the memories of his friends and colleagues.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Guy

The Obama administration must chose: Will it commit to measures to ensure the future viability of America's deterrent, or risk defeat of its arms control agenda at the hands of forty-one Senators who understand that nothing less is acceptable?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: START over

Because December 8th was the Catholic solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, classes were canceled and the forty-one seminarians and ten professors at Saint Beuno's School of Theology could while away the wide hours of morning and afternoon in holy obedience to hobbies and exercise in the glens and pastures of northern Wales.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'