Some of his notions, which once sounded a bit weird, were simply ahead of their time.

他的一些想法，曾经听起来有点奇怪，但现在已经超越了他们的时代。

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Perhaps they're just ahead of their time.

也许，他们只是超前于这个时代而已。

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His education theory was far ahead of their time.

他的教育理念远远走在时代前面。

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In fact most global automakers have signaled that they are going ahead with plans to open new factories in India at a time when many of them are facing a serious slump in their home countries.

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So nevertheless, even having given you that historical example, we're going to come back and we'll look later on in the class at a model in which politicians cannot choose their positions, but, rather, you know their positions ahead of time.

尽管如此,尽管我列举了一个历史上的例子,我们还是要回到课堂上来,我们接下来要来探讨一个,政客不能自己选立场的模型,但是当然你们可以提前获知他们的立场

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They recorded one album together - but they were ahead of their time and soon folded.

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His practices over the past couple of years have been, arguably, ahead of their time.

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Until then, Perry, his partners, and the Flint River basin farmers may be just a bit ahead of their time.

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