Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university.
在英国，每年都有成千上万的年轻人完成学业，然后在开始工作或上大学之前休息一年。
I asked, noting that the report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit.
注意到这份报告的日期几乎是我访问前整整一年，我发起了询问。
Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year.
在19世纪30年代以前，美国的大多数报纸都是通过年度订阅销售的，通常是一年8到10美元。
Higginbotham, who grew up in Chicago and became an engineer before joining NASA, that is the National Air and Space Administration, gives about a dozen speeches a year.
希金波坦在芝加哥长大，在加入美国国家航空航天局之前他是一名工程师，每年举办大约12次演讲。
The band is hoping to put on a show before the end of the year.
该乐队正希望在年底之前举行一场演出。
Logging companies would have to leave a central area of the forest before the end of the year.
伐木公司可能得于年底前在森林中留出一个中心地带。
The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won a silver.
他前年得了一枚金牌，大前年得了一枚银牌。
He had actually left the company a year before the rumpus started.
其实在争吵开始一年前，他就已经离开了这家公司。
Frank said he had been living in New York before a heavy rainstorm hit the city in the autumn of the year.
弗兰克说，当年秋天一场暴雨袭击纽约之前，他一直住在纽约。
That night, I looked through my father's books and saw the cookbook that he had given me a year before.
那天晚上，我翻了翻父亲的书，看到了他一年前给我的烹饪书。
The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs—up from 73% just a year before—say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.
83%的美国员工因工作而倍感压力，而一年前这一比例为73%。他们表示，微薄的薪酬和不合理的工作量是他们最大的压力来源。
John, wearing a harness and line, actually caught 25-year-old Jenny Goodman before she hit the ground.
约翰系着安全带和绳索，在25岁的珍妮·古德曼摔在地上之前接住了她。
It snowed the day before — giving a strange feeling at a time of year when there is virtually no darkness — but on Sunday the sun blazed across the water.
前一天下了雪——在一年中几乎没有黑暗的时候，会有一种奇怪的感觉——但周日，太阳照耀着湖面。
He did a residency at Walter Reed Medical Center and worked there for years before a transfer to the Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood this year.
他在沃尔特·里德医疗中心实习，并在那里工作多年，今年才转到胡德堡的达纳尔陆军医疗中心。
On a Saturday before New Year, my family went shopping together.
在新年前的一个星期六，我和家人们一起去购物。
They begin to prepare yangge even a month before the Chinese New Year.
甚至在中国新年前一个月，他们就开始准备秧歌了。
When you study there, you will have to face challenges in everyday life that you have never experienced before, but after a year abroad, you will return with a new look at life—and at yourself.
你在那里学习时，将不得不面对日常生活中从未经历过的挑战，但经过一年的国外生活，你将会以新的面貌、新的自我回归。
I started a band the year before last, though it didn't last we broke up after six months.
前年我组建了一支乐队，不过没维持多久，我们六个月就解散了。
After school she plans to take a year off to model full-time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.
毕业后，她打算休一年假，全职当模特，然后上大学，获得工程学或建筑学的学位。
Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, T-shirts with the words "Verbs Are Your Friends" on them.
学年末，我送给孩子们一份特别的礼物：上面印有“动词是你的朋友”的字样的 T 恤。
Before New Year, I told my mother that the only thing I wanted was a pogo stick.
新年前，我告诉妈妈我唯一想要的东西就是一根弹簧单高跷。
Reed's research shows that though nothing can truly change our DNA, environmental differences that a child experiences before birth and in their first year can sometimes affect the way the DNA behaves, making even identical twins into very different people.
里德的研究表明，虽然没有什么能真正改变我们的 DNA，但孩子在出生前和出生后第一年所经历的环境差异有时能够影响 DNA 的表现方式，甚至使同卵双胞胎变成两个很不同的人。
Before, that record was held by Kaitie Spotz from the USA, who crossed the Atlantic as a 22-year-old in 2010.
之前，这项纪录是由美国的凯蒂·斯伯茨保持，她在2010年22岁时横渡大西洋。
My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.
我十岁的女儿就在我眼前成长、变化，变成了一个充满激情和肩负使命的坚定的人。
To become a member of our volunteers, you must be the students who will graduate from junior middle school this year, and apply for it before June 23.
要成为我们志愿者一员，你必须是今年即将毕业的初中学生，并在6月23日前申请。
An interval of a year elapsed before we were able to return.
隔了一年我们才得以返回。
Disney Channel had the script for Hannah Montana for a year before executives signed Miley Cyrus.
迪斯尼儿童频道在和麦莉·塞勒斯签约前一年就已经有了剧本《汉娜·蒙塔娜》。
Yuri Gagarin died in a plane accident in 1968, a year before the Americans reached the moon.
加加林在1968年死于一次飞机失事，在美国人登上月球的前一年。
In the six months to January operating profit was up by 12% on a year before.
截止到今年1月的六个月里，该公司的营业利润比去年上涨了12%。
In the six months to January operating profit was up by 12% on a year before.
截止到今年1月的六个月里，该公司的营业利润比去年上涨了12%。
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