While boasting annual box-office revenue increases for nine straight years, largely due to increased ticket prices, the number of actual tickets sold has declined for the second year in a row.
尽管连续九年每年票房收入快速增加，很大程度是因为票价上涨，实际销售的票数量在第二年是下降的。
I wish I could just fire the entire staff for being so incompetent, but between going on vacation and running around trying to buy a second home, I'm really only in the office a couple of days a year.
但愿我能因他们不称职而一次性解雇全体员工，但在我去度假和为买第二套房子而奔波的空隙中，我一年真的只能在办公室里呆上一两天呢。
Last year, to make it that little bit easier for members of the House of Representatives to pop in, Mr Feulner opened a second office on the House side.
去年，为方便众议院议长更容易地到访，佛纳在众议院的那一侧开了第二个办公室。
Both the NOAA and Nasa have stated that the first six months of this year were the hottest on record, while the Met Office believes it is the second hottest start to the year after 1998.
NOAA andNasa均已表示，今年头6个月为有记录以来最热，而气象局则认为，它是1998年之后第二个最热上半年。
Olivia was the most popular name for newborn girls for the second year in a row, according to figures published by the Office of National Statistics for first names given to babies born in 2009.
英国国家统计局公布的2009年新生婴儿名统计数据显示，Olivia已连续两年获选最受欢迎新生女婴名。
Commissioned by Optimus Prime during the second year of the Earthen Conflict, the Overload weapons system was developed by a team of Autobot scientists led by Science Office Red Alert.
地球的冲突第二年，由科技长官红色警报领导的一支汽车人队伍受擎天柱委托，对超载的武器系统进行了升级。
This is the second time that outstanding inventors were honoured with the European Inventor of the Year award, which is instituted by the EU Commission and European Patent Office (EPO).
这是第二次授予欧洲发明奖，是由欧盟专利办公室委员会颁发的。
Last year China overtook Japan to become the second-largest film market after America, with box-office receipts of around 17 billion yuan ($2.8 billion).
去年，中国已赶超日本，成为全球仅次于美国的第二大电影市场，其票房收入达到了将近170亿人民币（合28亿美元）。
"I don't think we will have a second kid, " said 26-year-old Xiao Chen, an office worker. "After all, it is stressful work raising a child. "
26岁的小陈是一名上班族。他说：“我就不想要以后生两个孩子。毕竟，养孩子的压力太大了。”
"I don't think we will have a second kid, " said 26-year-old Xiao Chen, an office worker. "After all, it is stressful work raising a child. "
26岁的小陈是一名上班族。他说：“我就不想要以后生两个孩子。毕竟，养孩子的压力太大了。”
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