It has been eight weeks since I finished my second Ironman Australia triathlon in 11 hours and 58 minutes, which was 15 minutes faster than the year earlier.

距离我第二个澳大利亚铁人赛已经过去八周了，在比赛中我取得了11小时58分的成绩，比我今年早些时候的成绩快了15分钟。

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Let's start with the most important statistic: Barcelona are through to the last eight whilst Arsenal have been knocked out of the competition for the second year running by the Catalan side.

就从最重要的数据说起吧：巴塞罗那晋级八强，同时阿森纳连续两年被加泰罗尼亚对手淘汰出局。

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The second quarter of this year saw more than 4,000 such murders: twice as many as at the beginning of last year, and some eight times more than at the beginning of 2007 (see chart 1).

今年的第二季度，这类谋杀案共发生了4000多起，是去年年初的两倍，比07年年初高了近8倍(见上图)。

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Ndlovu's hat-trick was only the second in the eight-year history of the tournament and the first for Zimbabwe since Vitalis Takawira scored three against Cameroon in 1995.

BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Swazis riot after defeat

It was only the second time in his eight-year career that he started in center.

NPR: Kemp On DL With Hamstring Strain

Einstein's theory suggests the stars' orbital periods the time they take to go around each other ought to shrink by about eight-millionths of a second per year.

WSJ: Einstein Proved Right on Gravity��Again