I was going slowly at first but then I started to slide very fast.

一开始我滑得很慢，但后来我开始快速滑动。

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I rowed the canoe slowly at first.

起初，我缓缓地划着独木舟。

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So energy prices will rise only slowly at first.

所以能源价格在最初会缓速上涨。

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So, that's a funny property of conventional mortgages -that the mortgage balance declines very slowly at first and then it falls rapidly when it comes to maturity.

这是普通贷款很有意思的特性,即贷款余额在起初减少的非常缓慢,但随着到期日的临近,便会加速递减

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A peculiar property of this is that the mortgage balance falls slowly at first and then it gradually picks up; it's just a property of this formula.

其中一个特别的性质是,刚开始抵押贷款余额降得很慢,渐渐的,越降越快,这就是这个公式的性质

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