1·We've heard about several "poor students" in the past year.
我们听说去年有好几个“穷学生”。
2·Only now, after the strange events of this past year, do I have the courage to tell the story.
直到此刻，在去年那些奇怪的事情过后，我才鼓起勇气来讲述这个故事。
3·As you can see, Amazon today has a huge merchandise (including electronics) business that Dangdang has only started to develop recently-though it grew at a 162% clip over the past year.
正如你所看到的，今天的亚马逊拥有庞大的商品业务(包括电子产品)，而当当则是从最近才开始涉足此，尽管它比去年同期增长了162%。
4·In the past year thousands of factories, perhaps one-third to one-half of the total, have closed.
去年，成千上万的工厂倒闭，可能占到了这一地区工厂总数的三分之一乃至一半。
5·This month's increase pushed the main rate up by 6%, comfortably ahead of average earnings which went up by 4.4% in the past year.
本月最低标准的上涨使得主要标准增加了6%，大大超过了平均工资水平的提高幅度，后者在去年上升了4.4%。