较早的裁决因法律上的一项技术性细则而遭到推翻。

The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我想，这是一只较早的扁虱。

This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.

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许多较早的理论含蓄地贬低了太平洋岛民的航海能力和综合文化的创造力。

Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders.

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I don't know. If you've ever seen a movie - well, there are lots of movies that do this; one of the first movies that did this was "Who Killed Roger Rabbit?"

我不知道，如果你们看过那部电影,当然，有很多电影都描写过这一点，其中一部较早的,电影表现了这一手法--《谁谋杀了兔子罗杰》

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Linear A is earlier and it is associated with and it is clearly the language used by the Minoan kings at Knossos and other places.

类线形文字出现得较早,而且它已被确定与克诺索斯或其他地区的,米诺斯时期国王们所使用的语言有一定的关联

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These two new medical therapies that I mentioned are based on interfering with the biology of RNA, and one is older than the other and the older one is called anti-sense therapy.

我提到的这两种新医学疗法,都是基于RNA干扰来实现的,一种比另一种出现的更早,较早的那种方法叫做反义疗法

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