Journalist: In physics journals, the number of articles reporting the results of experiments involving particle accelerators was lower last year than it had been in previous years. Several of the particle accelerators at major research institutions were out of service the year before last for repairs, so it is likely that the low number of articles was due to the decline in availability of particle accelerators.
各位高手，我在做此题时，对文中the year before last 的理解为： 前年。 看很多人都把这一句翻译成去年，很是疑惑。 请高手指点 多谢！！
If several accelerators were unavailble in 2010, then fewer experiments were carried out using the instrument in 2010. Common sense says that it takes about a year to finish writing a paper once the experiments are done. Therefore, in 2011, fewer papers were published since fewer experiments were run.
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