At the beginning of this month, it (re-)emerged that there were far fewer male teachers in primary schools to act as role models.

本月初（又）涌现出了一个事实，那就是很多学校的男老师几乎起不到什么带头模范作用。

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At the beginning of this month only 56 per cent saw The Last Airbender in 3D, and a week later the proportion fell even lower, to 45 per cent, for the newly-released animation Despicable Me.

在这个月初，仅仅只有56%的观众去观看了《最后的airbender》的3D电影，在随后的一周降至更低，直到45%，新上映的动画《卑鄙的我》。

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"This creates a huge financial difficulty for us because you have to pay your bills, electricity and rent at the beginning of the month," he said in an interview.

“这给我们带来了极大的财政困难，要知道月初时你还得付账单，交房租和电费，”他在采访中说。

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McLaren tested their car for the first time in December, while Williams have been running since the beginning of this month.

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At the beginning of this month BYD broke ground on its second factory in the city of Xian.

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What all of this means is that beginning next month, we are in all likelihood going to see a post-American US government squaring off against the first genuinely Jewish Israeli government ever.

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