中午以前他们攀上了山巅。
以前他们往往携带介绍信来这里。
以前他们只风闻这个奥秘，如今他们亲身尝到了。
But now at last their turn has come. Before, they had only heard of the mystery, but now they feel it.
以前他们是用粘土、木头或是金属等材料手工制作的。
They are traditionally crafted by hand from materials such as clay, wood or metal.
以前他们也收到过Paula的手机短信说她处境危险。
In the past, family members said, they have received text messages from her indicating that she was in danger.
但是有一点值得注意：许多人可以做一些以前他们做不了的事情。
But the point that many people now can do something they weren't able to do before.
以前他们是被内在的动机驱使的，而现在他们却被外在的动机驱动。
What they had been motivated to do intrinsically, they were now being given an external, extrinsic motivation for.
以前他们一直依赖于从更多的电脑中向外发出更多的电邮，因为他们知道有些一定会成功的。
They long relied on sending more e-mails from more computers, knowing that some will get through.
机构投资者的要求越来越低，以前他们的要求总是让人畏缩，现在他们只要求得到单位数的回报。
Increasingly, institutional investors demand only single-digit returns, far less daunting than in the past.
狗儿叫了叫，说：我跟你讲啊，以前他们都叫我小可爱，让我睡在主人卧室里的天鹅绒座垫上，坐在女主人的膝头上。
barked the yard-dog, I'll tell you, they said I was a pretty little fellow once, then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap.
银行监管机构认为，联邦法律中设定的“系统性风险”条件赋予了他们取消保险上限的权限，虽然以前他们从没这么做过。
Bank regulators believe the 'systemic risk' clause in federal law gives them the authority to lift insurance limits, though it has never been used to do so before.
我目前工作的地方是世界上最大的医疗中心。每天看到的就是救护车拉来的人，五分钟以前他们自己也没有预料到会这样。
"I work in the world's largest medical center, and what you see here every day is people showing up in ambulances who didn't expect that just five minutes earlier," he said.
即使他们十分幸运的弄到一个完整的化石，如果它和以前他们所有见过的东西都不像，他们也没法对这个动物的行为了解更多。
Even if they are lucky enough to have a complete fossil, they may be unable to say much about how the animal behaved if it looks unlike anything they have seen before.
感谢南非芭蕾剧院的拓展计划，如今在约翰内斯堡亚历山德拉镇，黑人孩子每周能上三次芭蕾课，而以前他们难得看到芭蕾舞。
Once a rarity for black children, ballet classes are now a treat three times a week in Johannesburg's Alexandra township, thanks to an outreach program of the South African ballet Theatre.
车里雅宾斯克管辖的区域中有个小村庄叫做巴黎。当地人nagaybaki是一个矮小的族群，1917年以前他们属于哥萨克人的一支。
In the Chelyabinsk region there is a village named Paris; nagaybaki live here - a small people that belonged to Cossacks before 1917.
我指出并不是很多人真正到达办公室的时间是早上8：00以前；因此，早上8：00以前他们看见这封紧急邮件通知是不太可能的。
I pointed out that not many people actually arrive at the office by 8:00 a.m.; therefore, it would be unlikely that they have seen the "urgent" email announcement by 8:00.
所以谁能告诉我，Adobe/Zend介绍并实现的到底是个什么全新的东西，突然能让所有的PHP开发者完成以前他们无法做到的事情？
So please help me understand what it is that Adobe/ Zend actually introduced and did that is so new that all of a sudden PHP developers can start doing that they could not before?
以前他们根本无法全家一起出门，因为Marissa总是发脾气。 他们也不能带Marissa进商店，因为她总是想要什么就拿什么，不给就尖叫不止，直到得到她要的东西。
The family couldn't go out in public because of Marissa's tantrums, and they couldn't take her into stores because she'd shoplift what she wanted, or just scream until she got it.
他们以前每年给她上两次坟。
他们以前常常脱光衣服在小河里游泳。
They used to take off their clothes and go skinny dipping in the creek.
他们会在天黑以前回来。
我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。
Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.
他们不久以前还住在约克。
听到有人把他们牵扯在一起我很吃惊；我以前从未把他们联起来想过。
I was surprised to hear them mentioned together: I had never connected them before.
尽管以前素未谋面，但他们相处融洽。
They got on well together although they were total strangers.
离开以前，他们拥抱了所有留下的人。
甚至更早以前，他们可能坐在书桌旁长篇大论叙写情感信。
Even longer ago, they probably sat at their desks writing out long, emotional letters.
一年半以前，他们几经周折终于买下了这个公寓，对它进行了彻头彻尾的改造把它变成了自己的家。
They purchased the apartment a year and a half ago after an exhaustive search, opting for a gut-renovation to make it their own.
律师和公司计划着确保在其它分享这块大蛋糕以前，他们的影星已从电影收入分得一杯羹。
Lawyers and agents scheme to ensure that their stars take a cut of a film's proceeds before anybody else gets to the pie.
PV：不久以前，他们认为他们可能最终将会取消他们的分支办公室，客户将对通过AT M类的系统与他们互动和呼叫中心感到满意。
PV: Not that long ago, they felt maybe they could eventually eliminate their branch offices, and customers would be content to interact with them through ATM-type systems and call centers.
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