As with preceding years, 2019 has seen climate records broken with startling results.

与前几年一样，2019年的气候打破了记录，结果令人吃惊。

In fact we saw about a 15 deterioration in the number of sales from the preceding year.

事实上，我们看到销售数量比前一年下降了约百分之十五。

South Africans have suffered more of them since January than in any preceding full year.

自 1 月以来，南非人遭受的痛苦比以往任何一整年都多。

Nasdaq's index of bank stocks dropped by a quarter in the course of a week, erasing gains from the preceding 25 years.

纳斯达克的银行股指数在一周内下跌了四分之一，将过去25年的增长一下抹去。

During the preceding year one of the assistant secretaries had invested all his savings in Bethlehem Steel.

前一年，一位助理秘书将他所有的积蓄都投入了伯利恒钢铁公司。

The steepest recession on the American mainland, a plague of H1N1 swine flu and a deepening war against organised crime had made the preceding few years fairly grim.

除了美洲大陆上经济最为不佳之外，墨西哥还遭受H1N1猪流感和缉毒战争的洗礼，其前途一片黯淡。

As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a bang, though there had been a racket in the preceding years.

事实证明，奥斯曼帝国六个多世纪的统治并非轰然落幕，而是缓缓落幕的，尽管在之前的几年里曾有过喧嚣。

Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years.

在去世的最后一年，他写道在过去的二三十年中，他的思想发生了变化。

In America spending rose by 38%, to $211bn, compared with average annual growth of 21% in the preceding five years, according to eMarketer, a research firm.

美国的支出增长了 38%， 达到 2110 亿美元， 根据研究公司 eMarketer 的数据，而过去五年的平均年增长率为 21%。

Leviticus instruct that on this date all Jews must set aside their usual family and commercial activities and mentally review their actions over the preceding year.

利未记指示， 在这一天，所有犹太人必须搁置他们通常的家庭和商业活动，并在精神上回顾他们在前一年的行为。

They are formed in the preceding year, a little while before the leaves begin to fall; and as they form, they loosen the old leaves, and soon push them off.

它们在前一年就已经形成，就是在树叶凋落之前的一小段时间形成；它们形成后就会松开老叶子，然后将它们挤掉。

It was difficult not to feel bitter about the events of the preceding year. She had shed so many tears in the past year since her daughter s murder.

一想到一年前发生的不幸，南希就禁不住感到痛苦。她抓起一张面巾纸，擦去眼中的泪水。女儿被害后的这一年中，她不知道流了多少眼泪。

The general brown and purple of the ground, and the dead vegetation of the preceding year, give place to the green of mosses and liverworts and myriads of young leaves.

地面普遍呈棕色和紫色， 以及前一年枯死的植被， 让位于绿色的苔藓和苔藓以及无数的嫩叶。

He will find there, too, the particular account of the preceding ten years, of which the average is likewise below, though not so much below, the general average of the sixty-four first years of the century.

他还会在那里找到前十年的具体情况， 其平均水平同样低于本世纪前六十四年的平均水平， 尽管没有那么低。

The " King James Bible" was compiled by a committee of 54 scholars and clerics, and published in 1611, in an attempt to standardize the plethora of new Bibles that had sprung up over the preceding 70 years.

“钦定版圣经”由 54 位学者和神职人员组成的委员会编纂，并于 1611 年出版，旨在对过去 70 年涌现的大量新圣经进行标准化。

The two preceding years had been spent in Europe with a private tutor, who persuaded him that Harvard was the thing; it would " open doors, " it would be a tremendous tonic, it would give him innumerable self-sacrificing and devoted friends.

前两年是在欧洲跟随一位私人家庭教师度过的，他说服了他哈佛才是最好的选择；它会“打开大门”，它会是一种极好的滋补品，它会给他带来无数自我牺牲和忠诚的朋友。