A few weeks before we left home, there was much rain in the area we were going to.

离开家前的几周，我们要去的地区下了很多雨。

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Before we left, he put a note on the windshield of the car with his phone number on it.

在我们离开之前，他在汽车的挡风玻璃上贴了一张纸条，上面写着他的电话号码。

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We programmed this celebration before we left.

我们在离开之前就把这次庆祝计划好了。

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"With all my heart, I urge you to pull up an anchor and make full sail before we lose the tide and are left stranded on the beach, exposed to the coming storms."

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It's tabulated in books, and this we can measure p in the experiment. Delta p here is the change in pressure from the left side to the right side, and we can put a thermometer, measure the temperature before the experiment and measure the temperature after the experiment.

这列在书上，这个量我们在,实验中也可以测量，在这里Δ,是从左边到右边的压强变化，我们可以放一个温度计，去测量实验前的温度,再去测量试验后的温度。

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Whether that would ever happen, if Pynchon had decided to let us in on the secret, I don't know. Pynchon, instead, chooses to end the novel before that moment, and so we're left with a kind of emptiness.

如果说Pynchon是想要，让这成为一个谜题的话，那我也不知道，究竟出现了，没有取而代之的是Pynchon选择了,在那一幕之前让小说戛然而止，让我们陷入了，一片空白之中。

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So before we left, we put out the trash, just as we did back home.

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It was a lovely time, but only because we dodged a bullet days before we left.

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Just before we left, I asked Francisca one more question: How was the drought affecting her family?

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