The study found only a third of men now go down on one knee to pop the question as their fathers and grandfathers' generations would have done.

研究发现，只有三分之一的男性现在还会像他们的父辈和祖辈那样单膝下跪求婚。

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This one makes me feel like someone is looking down on me, smiling and saying “There you go, now you have a great day!”.

这个时候我就觉得天上有人一直在眷顾着我，微笑着对我说：“来，高高兴兴地过一天吧！”

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“On paper, we don't necessarily match up well with anybody, when you just go one-on-one right down the line,” coach Rick Carlisle said.

“在纸面上看来，进行一对一对位比较时，与任何球队相比，我们都肯定不占优势，”小牛队主教练卡莱尔说。

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I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down,down, just like one of those poor,tired leaves."

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She heard a gunshot and, looking out the back window, saw one of the mules go down on its knees.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'

With the fiscal cliff and its double whammy of expiring tax breaks and spending cuts, this has to go down as one of the strangest year-ends on record.

FORBES: Year-End Tax Planning Despite The Cliff

The past 12 months are likely to go down as one of the markets' most volatile times on record, and the biggest losers of the year are technology shares.

BBC: Stock markets see red over 2000