old year

基本解释

The old year could not have ended soon enough for the millions of Americans who spent 2010 struggling to find jobs or avoid foreclosure notices.
对在2010年在努力寻找工作或避免止赎通知的数百万计的美国人来说，旧的一年很快就过去了。
In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.
总之，就在春节到来之前，为了告别旧年迎接新年，家家户户都会彻底打扫一下房屋。
But in the cold morning hour, crouching in the corner of the wall, the poor little girl was found：her cheeks glowing, her lips smiling, frozen to death on the last night of the old Year.
直到寒冷的早晨，人们发现一个可怜的小姑娘蜷缩在墙角里，她双颊通红，嘴唇上带着微笑，她已经在旧年的除夕冻死了。

The idea of admitting mistakes and finishing the business of the old year is found in many cultures.
There is no machine yet that can recognize faces or understand sentences at the level of a two-year-old human.
至今还没有任何机器,能够做到面孔识别,或是理解两岁儿童能够轻易理解的句子
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which you'll think, only a ten or eleven year old, but when there is thirteen of them, it's a lot.
你会想，不就是十岁、十一岁的小孩嘛，但有十三个还是很多的。
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This is particularly true of the purification-by-fire marking the end of the old year.
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