Interestingly, there's some speculation that humans started having a major impact on Earth much earlier, about 8000 years ago.

有趣的是，有一些推测认为，人类对地球产生重大影响的时间要早得多，大约应该在8000年前。

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There is growing support for the theory that migration took place much earlier, by sea, following a coastal route along Alaska and down the northwest coast.

越来越多的人支持这样一种理论，即移民发生得要早得多，是沿着阿拉斯加沿海路线，沿西北海岸而下通过海路进行的。

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This phenomenon was not necessarily confined to the Pleistocene, but may have occurred much earlier in the Southeastern Asian islands, although evidence is fragmentary.

尽管证据很少，但这种现象并不一定局限于更新世，而可能在东南亚诸岛发生得更早。

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However,the fighting had stopped much earlier.

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To so many readers it has seemed that Eve is actually quoting Milton's much earlier writing, Areopagitica, in her defense, and it has an incredibly unsettling effect. Evil has to be challenged.

对于很多读者，这似乎是夏娃引用弥尔顿,早期的作品《论出版自由》为自己辩护，这又造成了极大的混乱的影响，恶在这里被挑战了。

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but they were saying the funds, they were low on funds, so they were trying to close it much earlier,

但公园的资金却出现了短缺，所以他们试着要提早关门。

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But there is another death scene much earlier in the opera that is almost as wrenching.

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In most special needs cases, the disabled individual is withdrawing funds much earlier in life.

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Individuals retiring much earlier must reduce that to only one or two percent of assets.

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