1. The New Year is a time for resolutions.
    新年是下决心的时候，

2. The same old favourites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.
    相同的决心以单调的规律年复一年地出现。

3. Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra thousand pounds a year!
    然后他微笑了一下告诉我说，我每年将得到1,000 英镑的额外收入。

4. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
    两个主要种植者，朱塞皮.莫尔道瓦和里卡多.布拉班特告诉我，他们一直期待着今年获得一个大丰收，收割工作比往年开始要早些。

5. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year´s crop before the September rains.
    全村的人都日夜奋战，要赶在9月的雨季之前把今年的庄稼收获上来，打完场。

6. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year.
    那座大钟不愿意迎接新年。

7. The following year, it was taken to pieces and sent to America.
    第二年，它被拆成若干小块，运到美国。

8. There is a car race near our town every year.
    在我们镇子附近每年都有一场汽车比赛。

9. They were in fashion last year and the year before last.
    这鞋在去年和前年时兴，

10. They were getting things ready for this year´s tree-planting.
    为今年的植树做准备，