Before the rise of the factory, artisans had worked within the home.

在工厂兴起之前，工匠们在家里工作。

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Prices fluctuate, in response to harvests, natural disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes some time before new sources of supply become available.

价格会随着收成、自然灾害和政治不稳定而波动；当价格上涨时，需要一段时间才能找到新的供应来源。

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Before the rise of social networking, online communication occured via email, chat and forums.

在社会化网络崛起之前，在线交流发生在电子邮件，聊天和论坛之中。

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China has acknowledged the need to limit its carbon emissions, but argued that greater responsibility falls on advanced industrialized nations like the United States, which produced large quantities of greenhouse gases for decades before China's rise as a global economic power.

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But the action of the Republic takes place long before the defeat of Athens, before the rise of the Thirty and the execution of Athens .

但《理想国》撰写的时间,远早于雅典战败，及三十暴君掌权之前,也早于雅典被处决之前。

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Before we get to that, I should say that the Greeks have already, before this period of the polis and the period of colonization which is connected with the rise of the polis, centuries before that the greeks had already spread out from their original settlements.

在我们深究此前,我得先说,在城邦时期和殖民地时期之前,即跟城邦兴起的两个关联时期,希腊人已在数百年前,从最初的家园往外移民

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All these functions of government were designed before the rise of the global economy, the information technology revolution, and the end of the Cold War.

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Slow and Steady Wins the RaceJana Francis and Rett Clevenger launched Steals.com in April of 2008, well before the rise of Big Boy daily deal sites, like Groupon and Livingsocial.

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Warts and all, this is the kind of film that major studios used to release on a regular basis before the rise of the four-quadrant tent-pole.

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