mid-December

The main school holidays are from mid-December till early February, when the days are long and warm.(学校的主要假期是从12月中旬到2月初，这段时间里白天长而且很温暖。)

THERE were two lessons to be learned from the Asian art sales in Paris in mid-December.(在十二月中旬于巴黎举行的亚洲艺术品的拍卖会上，我们学到了两样东西。)

Now, in mid-December 2007, the launch of the player was just weeks away.(现在，在2007年的12月中旬，距离该播放器发布只有几个星期了。)

The Chinese began to study systematically the unusual animal behavior, and the Haicheng earthquake of February 1975 was predicted successfully as early as in mid-December of 1974.(由于中国开始对动物异常行为进行系统的研究，1975年2月发生在海城地震早在1974年12月中旬就已被成功预测到。)

In mid-December, Twitter said it had received a major infusion of funds from a group of investors, which reportedly put a 3.7 billion dollar value on the site.(在2010年12月份中旬，Twitter称已经收到了一批投资者的大量资金投入，据报道这使得Twitter成为价值37亿美元的网站。)

Between the start of 2006 and mid-December the Thai baht rose by 16% against the dollar—more than most other currencies tracked by The Economist.(自2006年初到12月中旬，泰铢兑美金升值16%，高于绝大多数<>跟踪的其他货币。)

These latest two cases bring the total in Viet Nam since mid-December 2004 to eight.(这最新的两个病例使越南自2004年12月中以来的病例总数达到8例。)

My surprise over the past few winters has been the personality transformation my parents go through around mid-December as they change from Dad and Mom into Grandpa and Grandma.(我一直很惊奇过去几年中我父母的个性的转变。当时是大约十二月中旬，他们就从父母变成了祖父母。是的，他们成了祖父母，完全不同于十一个半月之前我所熟悉的父母。)

Today’s official report brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in Viet Nam, detected since mid-December 2004, to 24.(今天的正式报告使越南自2004年12月中以来发现的经实验室确认的病例总数达到24例。)

In December, China's apparent oil demand surged 15% compared with the same period a year earlier, helping underpin a 16% rise in oil-futures prices from mid-December to early January.(12月，中国表观原油需求与去年同比激增15%，推动原油期货价格从12月中旬至1月初上涨16%。)