在去年初，我从一些小的账单开始，并在年底还清了几张小的账单。

I started with some smaller bills at the beginning of last year, and paid off several of them by the end of the year.

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但官方的经济学家们去年初曾经做过类似的预测，而结果证明并非如此。

But official economists made a similar forecast at the start of last year and were proved wrong.

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绍斯塔克假设，生命最初产生时已有所需的化学物质，去年初这个假设得到了进一步的有力支持。

Further and vital reassurance to Szostak's assumption that the needed chemistry was readily available to the first life came early last year.

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