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year ，～ after ～：～ by ～— 1189
这两个状语同义，都作“年复一年”讲，只是 year after year 所表达的时间概念是延续不断的，而 year by year 则是一年一年计算的（前者原是 after year and after year 或 after year and year 的简写，后者原是 by year and by year 或 by year and year 的简写）。
例如：
We have been to that place year after year, for I don't know how long. 我们在那个地方一年一年呆下去，也不知已呆了多久了。
Year by year we grow a little old. 我们一年比一年长大起来。
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