If you consider that she's only been studying English a year, she speaks it very well.
你可以考慮到她那學一年的英語,她的英語說得非常好。
After the War of Independence ended, New York became the capital of the USA for a short time (1789-90) before Washington, D.C.
獨立戰爭結束以后,在華盛頓成為首都之前,紐約市曾經一度是美國的首都,不過時間很短(1789-90)。