Before I had left the hotel, I took a cardof the hotel at the reception totally due to my vocationalhabit.
在离开旅馆前，我出于职业的习惯从前台拿了张旅馆的名片。
Anyway, it was kind of a long walk to the library from the apartment I was living in at the time, so even though I had just had a smoke before I left, I decided to have another to pass the time.
总之，从我当时住的公寓到图书馆可是一段很长的距离，所以即使我在离开前已经吸过一根烟，我还是决定再来一根来消磨这段时间。
It had taken a long time, and I was glad to know that at least the problem would be resolved before I left.
这一问题已经花了太多时间，我很高兴地看到在我离任前得以解决。
I got lucky, Allegra McEvedy had used my kitchen for a shoot the week before and had left just the right quantity of beef bone marrow in the fridge.
我就很幸运了，AllegraMcEvedy为了拍摄曾在一个星期前使用过我的厨房，然后在冰箱里留下了一块上好的牛骨髓。
It was the day before Thanksgiving — the first one my three children and I would be spending without their father, who had left several months before.
那天是感恩节前一天- - - - - -也是第一次我和我的三个孩子没有在他们的父亲的陪伴下度过，他早在几个月前就走了。
I had never played before, but I came on and scored a perfect hat-trick: header, left foot, right foot.
我以前从没踢过球，但我上来后就踢出完美的帽子戏法：头球，左脚进球和右脚进球。
Four days later, just before I left again for Wye River, I named John Podesta to succeed Erskine, who had strongly recommended him for the job.
四天之后，就在我去怀依河会议中心之前，在厄斯金的强力推荐下，我提名约翰·波德斯塔接替他的职务。
I felt prepared, though, because I had done the small test the night before. Nothing was left to chance.
我感觉已经准备好了，因为我们昨晚已经进行了试拍，没有需要改变的地方了。
Linton, who had been conveyed up to the little parlour soon after I left, was terrified into fetching the key before his father re-ascended.
林惇在我走后就被搬到楼上小客厅里去，他被吓得趁他父亲还没有再上楼，就拿到了钥匙。
Before my interviewees entered or left my office, I had to call the receptionist to run traffic control to make sure that no one else saw them.
当我的接待对象进来和离开时，我会打电话给接线员俩控制人员进入以确保没人看见他们。
I had slung my handbag across the back of my chair and, when we stood up to leave, I found that the bag had left before me.
当我们起身准备离开时，我发现挂在椅背上的手袋已经不翼而飞。
Through the glass I could see the very bridge I had left just a few moments before.
透过窗玻璃，我可以看到了刚才经过的那座桥。
Hilarious, since I had been there half an hour before and there was hardly any breakfast left at all.
滑稽的是，我半小时前就下来了，而那个时候已经根本没有什么早餐剩下了。
I had spent few days in my hometown before I left for Paris, and two main reasons were: visiting family and friends, and Eurovision song contest.
在我到达巴黎之前，我已经花费了几天时间在我的家乡，两个主要的原因是：拜访家庭和朋友，欧洲电视的歌唱比赛。
"This was six months of my life which left me nowhere further along in my career than before," Footman says. "It was not a learning experience and that was what I had expected."
“我为此花费了人生中6个月的时间，却对我的事业没有任何推动，”福特曼说，“这并非我原先期望的学习机会。”
I am alone for the first time in my life, I had never left St Petersburg before.
这是我人生第一次孤身漂泊在外，我之前从未离开过圣彼得堡。
Two days ago I went to see him, but his neighbor said that he had left four days before.
两天前，我去拜访他，可他邻居说他在四天前就走了。
Burmans were bringing dash and baskets even before I left, and I was told they had stripped his body almost to the bones by the afternoon.
缅甸人还没有等我走开就提着桶和篮子来了，据说到了下午他们已把它拨剥得只剩骨骼了。
I had graduated from Harvard a few years before he left MIT, and we Shared a few mutual friends as well as a few minor interests: sports, late nights at college pubs, widescreen TVs.
他离开麻省理工学院之前，我已经从哈佛毕业几年了。我们不但有一些共同的朋友，也有一些共同的小爱好：体育，晚场泡酒吧的不归人，大屏幕电视前的常客。
As I wrapped up the masse-mail, I remembered something my friend Susan had said to me before I left on this world journey nine months ago.
在总结这封长信之际，我想起我的朋友苏珊九个月前在我展开这趟世界之旅前，对我说过的话。
I remembered I had put the pen into my bag before I left home in the morning.
我也清楚地记得我早上离开家的时候把钢笔放进书包里了。
Whenever I came home, Kristin would pick me up at the airport and our conversation would resume right where it had left off months before.
每次我回家，克丽丝汀都去机场接我，然后我们继续几个月前的话题。
I had nothing to do with her dismissal; then why did she give me an accusatory look before she left?
她被解职和我毫无关系，那她为什么离去以前用责备的眼光看了我一眼？
Although I had a BA and an MA in China, I never went to any graduation ceremony before I left.
虽然在中国我获得过学士和硕士学位，但我在出国之前从来没有参加过任何毕业典礼。
When I got there I was told that they had left only a few minutes before.
我到达那里时人家对我说他们就在几分钟前离开那里了。
Trainers kept telling me how many days were left before the Olympics, and how much time I had left for training.
不停有人跟我说，奥运会还有几天，我还剩多长时间训练。
When I went back to the school that I had left eight years before, everything was different.
当我回到阔别了八年的学校时，发现一切都变了。
If papa thought I had left him on purpose, and if he died before I returned, could I bear to live?
如果爸爸以为我是故意离开他的，如果在我回去之前他死了，我怎么活得下去呢？
If papa thought I had left him on purpose, and if he died before I returned, could I bear to live?
如果爸爸以为我是故意离开他的，如果在我回去之前他死了，我怎么活得下去呢？
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