1. Average years of work experience: 10 in Philadelphia, 12 in San Francisco

2. Buyers looking for new construction will have more options next year, as the number of new condos hitting the market in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island City, Queens, is expected to more than double to 8,366 from 3,444 in 2014, according to data provided by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group.

3. 在家里创造一个属于自己的学习空间。如果身边家人都在身边，你就要确保大家都明白你是在里面学习，除非房子着火，他们是不会打扰到你的。

4. Among the year’s biggest surprises was the plunge in gasoline pries. Economists differed on the economic impact—money in the pockets of consumers offset by declines in exploration and drilling activity—but everyone agreed that it was bearish for small cars and hybrids. The combination of cheap gas and a steep sticker price made the Cadillac ELR the runaway winner of the most disliked car of the year award. Only 155 of the Volt-based $80,000 cars found buyers in November.

5. 美联储退出购债计划的道路是否会经历坎坷？

6. When she consults managers, Kay says many of them suspect something is fishy when their employees stop talking to them as often, whether it's to give an update, ask for an opinion or just say hello. As Kay puts it: "You're not doing the things you normally would have to keep the relationship going."

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1. Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age? 在您那个年代，您曾经担心过我们现在担心的事吗？

2. 《老友记》是成长在90年代的小伙伴们心中标志性的存在，因为它的主题：友谊、大城市生存的不易，发现自我、寻求独立，与年轻人息息相关，如今亦是如此。

3. We began the year worried that the US was poised to withdraw from the World Trade Organisation. That hasn’t happened. And it’s now unlikely to any time soon.

4. Analysts say headline import figures may start to improve in the coming months since commodity price falls were particularly pronounced at the end of 2014, which will mean smaller year-on-year falls in Chinese imports in value terms.

5. Nicolas Cage certainly bucks a lot of trends. He once told media that, for residency reasons, the award he won for the 1996 film Leaving Las Vegas was “in a truck somewhere moving through Louisiana”. Apparently, one of the ways the authorities determine if you’re a resident or not – in what must be the most niche of tests – is to ask where your Academy Award is.

6. 8．《没问题先生》

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1. China's online retail volume is expected to outperform the rest of the world by reaching four trillion yuan (618 billion USdollars) this year, Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Sunday.

2. 沃尔玛美国公司总裁兼首席执行官比尔西蒙

3. China has been making progress in terms of prevention and control of AIDS, said Wang Bin, an NHC official in charge of disease prevention, during the press conference.