EXAMPLE: During its early years the new little company was just able to tread water. Expenses were paid, but no profit was achieved.

这家公司在刚开业的最初几年只能勉强生存。除去开支之后，根本没有利润。

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The workshop for precision mechanics and optics opened by Carl Zeiss in Jena in 1846 already enjoyed a sustained period of prosperity during its early years.

卡尔蔡斯公司1846年创立于德国耶拿，它的生产精密光学机械的工厂，在初创时期就一直很是繁荣。

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During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists in New England.

早期的哈佛学院按照英国大学的模式开设了古典学术课程，但这些课程仍都保持与新英格兰第一批殖民者的清教哲学一致。

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He paid tribute to the efforts of Neil Kinnock and season ticket holder (and Tory MP) Jonathan Evans in helping promote the Premier League during its early years.

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The discovery that both boys had a rare metabolic condition called Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), which results from a failure of the body to make its own cholesterol, explained many of their struggles during their early years.

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The OU, founded in 1969, is keen to promote the fact that more of its students are starting home learning courses during their teenage years or early 20s.

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