1·GINGER BREAD HOUSE - Sunday the 28th is the first Advent Sunday.
姜饼屋—28日星期日是第一个基督降临节。
2·In Cyprus 4 and parts of Greece, the Little Carnival ushers in the Advent season, which, for purists, is also a time of abstinence 5.
在塞浦路斯和希腊部分地区，小狂欢节之后便是基督降临节，这对纯粹主义者来说，也是斋戒的时节。
1·The advent of the computer has brought this sort of task within the bounds of possibility.
电脑的出现使这种任务的完成成为可能。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Since the advent of television people have been prophesying the death of the book.
自从电视出现以来，人们一直在预言书的消亡。
3·Textile dyes, such as indigo, were mostly of plant origin until the advent of synthetic chemical dyes.
在合成化学染料出现之前，诸如靛蓝之类的纺织染料主要来源于植物。
4·With the advent of projection in 1895-1896, motion pictures became the ultimate form of mass consumption.
随着1895到1896年间投影技术的出现，电影成为大众消费的最终形式。
5·Think about the advent of hedge funds, twenty or twenty-five years ago, hedge funds were a blip on the radar screen.
想想对冲基金的出现，20或25年前，对冲基金是雷达屏幕上的一个光点。
1·With the advent of the five-year-plans, millions of women also began to toil in factories and in heavy construction, building dams, roads and steel mills in summer heat and winter frost.
随着“五年计划”的到来，数以百万计的妇女也开始在工厂和大型建筑工地、大坝、道路和钢铁厂中苦干，经受着夏天的酷热和冬天的严寒。
2·With the advent of the 2.6 kernel, the problem of processor limitations that existed before has been corrected.
随着 2.6 内核的到来，以前存在的处理器限制方面的问题都已经得到了解决。
3·With the advent of cloud computing we quickly realized that this metered resource usage had another important management perspective - costing.
随着云计算的到来，我们很快意识到这种对资源使用的计量还有另外一个重要的管理角度——成本核算。
4·The swinging sixties also saw the advent of containerisation in shipping.
摇摆的六十年代也看到了集装箱航运的到来。
5·It's interesting to note that although the Internet has been around since 1969 - nearly as long as the NLS - it didn't take off until the advent of a hypertext system - the World Wide Web.
有意思的是，虽然英特网在1969年就出现了(这几乎和NLS的历史一样悠久)，事实上，这个万维网是在超文本系统到来之后才真正开始的。
1·In Victorian times plum pudding was a Christmas favourite. It is traditionally made a week before Advent on what is known as "stir-up Sunday".
在维多利亚时期，圣诞布丁是最受欢迎的圣诞食物之一。依照传统人们会在基督降临节前一周做圣诞布丁，这一天被称为“唤醒星期日”。