兰西说：“在孩子们6岁或7岁之前，我们总是拒绝他们帮忙做家务的想法。后来许多孩子逐渐失去了帮忙的欲望，我们就只能用奖励零花钱来激励他们做家务。”
"We deny our children's bids to help until they are 6 or 7 years old," Lancy says, "when many have lost the desire to help and then try to motivate them with payment."
也就是说，事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏，在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话（使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣）。
That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).
这也使我更难以接受这种想法：在完成它的生命图画之前，我们会失去这种生物。
It makes it all the harder for me to accept the thought that we may lose this creature before its life picture can be completed.
我感觉自己仿佛失去了打开父亲心扉的钥匙，而他在我重新找回这把钥匙之前就去世了。
I felt as if I'd lost the key to my father's heart, and he died before I could find it again.
我失去了最好的朋友，AllaEkshem，在两周之前。
如果在陈述之前你没有与观众互动，你就失去了一次在听众面前提升你的声誉的机会。
If you donâ t take time to mingle before the presentation, you lose an opportunity to enhance your credibility with your listeners.
如果恰在执行CAS之前线程失去执行权，那么在线程恢复执行之后，CAS会失败，继续循环，直到有有效的数据可用为止。
If there was thread preemption just before CAS, after resumption of the thread, CAS would fail, and the looping would continue until valid data were available.
白羊座中杰出的女性们通常好像战胜或打败了她们的对手，但是在成功的事件中，她们对之前所欣赏的对手失去了尊重。
Women with Aries prominent often seem to work to overcome or defeat their partners, but in the event they succeed, have a tendency to lose respect for their formerly admired "opponents".
如我之前所说，在某些情况下这非常有用，但绝大多数时候，我会完全失去平衡。
As I said in certain circumstances this can be very useful but in general it leads to complete imbalance!
问题是为什么我们会失去那么多的潜在客户，他们甚至在还没有伸手掏腰包的机会之前我们就已经失去了他们。
The question is why we lose so many potential customers before they've even had a chance to reach for their wallets.
如果你在22岁之前就长大了，你会失去这个最佳机会。
If you grow up before you turn 22, you'll have missed a perfect opportunity.
在一些健康热衷者突然告诉我们他们不吃糖果之前，我们想要指出，在清理的过程中，苹果会失去其自然光泽。
Before some health nut out there pipes up to tell us they don't eat candy, we'd like to point out that, during the cleaning process, apples lose their natural shine.
创业者可能会失去兴趣，在毕业时选择离开公司，或者他们觉得在正式进军商界之前自己还需进一步磨练。
A startup's founders may lose interest, leave when they graduate, or just need to grow up a little before embarking on a money-making venture.
在中期选举之前，拉氏的一份备忘录中已经暗含其本人也对自己的政策失去了信心。
Mr Rumsfeld left a parting memo, written just before the mid-term elections, which suggests that even he had lost confidence in his own policies.
五年之前是爆炸案的20周年纪念日。在杰克逊维尔的贝鲁特纪念馆里，我遇到一个在那次事件中失去父亲的孩子。
Five years ago, at the 20th anniversary remembrance of the bombing at the Beirut Memorial in Jacksonville, N.C., I met one of the many American children who were left fatherless that day.
在没有失去影响力之前，他不会轻易失去亚洲。
It cannot surrender Asia without losing influence everywhere else.
当然，在他们给你钱之前你同意了他们的商业模式，而你失去了对于公司的绝对控制权。至少一般建立在主观意愿上的假设是错 误的，很多结论也是如此。
And, just as surely, at least half the assumptions that business plan was based on will turn out to be wrong as well as many of its conclusions.
你一定希望在失去你当前的工作之前就找到一个新工作。
And you want to find a new job before you lose the one you have.
十天之前在北约空袭昆都士之后，失去亲人的市民排成长队，以便能领到一具他们可以为之哭泣的烧焦的尸体。
Following the Nato air strike in Kunduz 10 days ago, bereaved civilians formed a line so that they might receive a charred corpse to call their own.
在5月16日失去其一半的恢复领域之前，两天后指数又迅速回升了20%。
Then the index leapt by 20% in two days, before losing half the recovered ground on May 16th.
假如你很害怕失去现在的工作，你完全有理由感到害怕。工作缺乏安全感会要了你的命。你一定希望在失去你当前的工作之前就找到一个新工作。
If you're afraid of losing your job, you probably should be. Job insecurity can kill you. And you want to find a new job before you lose the one you have.
Mandelbrot集合在各个级别上都是非常细微和复杂的，但是float或double可以在失去区分相邻点的能力之前达到这个细微的级别。
The Mandelbrot set is infinitely deep and complex at all scales, but a float or a double can go only so deep before losing the ability to distinguish adjacent points.
在失去朋友，甚至时目前的地位之前还是好好考虑一下你的下一步吧。
Think twice about your next move before you lose a friend and possibly your current position.
这一决定意味着在一个工作周内希腊就回到了原点：11月7日，磋商失去作用之前帕帕季莫斯看上去就已经稳操胜券了。
The decision meant Greece had come full circle in less than a working week: on November 7th Mr Papademos had looked like a shoo-in for the job before negotiations went sour.
在我遇到现在的妻子朱莉娅之前，失眠症已经使我失去了好几次良缘。
Before I met my wife, Julia, insomnia wrecked several relationships.
越来越多的在Kabul的分析家已经开始怀疑，在这个国家的人民失去耐心或者是外国的资助者丧失兴趣之前，国家能否稳定以及能否相当程度的自给。
Increasingly, analysts in Kabul are coming to doubtwhether the country can become stable and reasonably self-sufficient before its people lose patience, or foreign donors lose interest.
越来越多的在Kabul的分析家已经开始怀疑，在这个国家的人民失去耐心或者是外国的资助者丧失兴趣之前，国家能否稳定以及能否相当程度的自给。
Increasingly, analysts in Kabul are coming to doubtwhether the country can become stable and reasonably self-sufficient before its people lose patience, or foreign donors lose interest.
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