We get distracted before we can turn down the heating.
我们在调低暖气之前就已经分心了。
His speech was so great that it was several minutes before the applause died down.
他的演讲太精彩了，过了好几分钟大家的掌声才平息下来。
Inside the control room, physicists and engineers cautiously shot the beam down part of the tunnel, stopping it before it went all the way around.
在控制室内，物理学家和工程师们小心翼翼地在隧道的一部分将光束击落，在其完成全程之前把它拦截下来。
They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
他们发现，20世纪80年代之前的产量增长速度在20世纪90年代和21世纪有所放缓，这占据了作物收割面积的24%至39%。
I just saw an exposition of the photos that had never been seen before; but anyway, this is the Hotel de Ville which is down by Notre Dame.
我刚看了一个展览，都是些之前从未见过的照片；但无论如何，这就是市政厅，往下是巴黎圣母院。
They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.
在审判开始之前，他们不会有任何事情要记录。
He looked down at the sea of smiling faces before him.
他看着眼前这笑脸的海洋。
Write down the address before you forget it.
把地址记下来，免得忘了。
She listened in a mixture of shock and anger before slamming the phone down.
她震惊而气愤地听着，随后啪地挂上电话。
Time ran out before we could get down to the real nitty-gritty.
我们还没来得及探讨真正的细节，时间就过去了。
"I want to do it before the sun goes quite—quite down," he said.
“我想在太阳落山之前完成它。”他说。
If we can only get to the old tannery before we break down!
要是我们能在累垮之前赶到老制革厂就好了！
Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000 (7.9 percent) from its year-ago level.
非自愿兼职的员工人数仍远高于经济衰退前的人数，但较上年同期减少了64万人，下降了7.9%。
Maybe it was the beginning of something better in life, better than you could ever have thought possible before clamping your jaws down over the vital bait.
也许这是更美好生活的开始，要比你闭上嘴、咬住那极为重要的鱼饵之前所能够想到的要好。
The evening sun was shining down on the grass before her.
夕阳照在她面前的草地上。
Peter was not the kind that breaks down before other people.
彼得不是那种会在别人面前崩溃的人。
The shell somehow has to be broken down before this germination ability expires.
外壳必须在这种发芽能力失效之前被以某种方法破坏掉。
The network has shrunk by roughly a third since its postwar heyday, but more trains now trundle up and down the country than ever before.
自战后全盛时期以来，铁路网络已经缩减了约三分之一，但现在全国上下行驶的列车比以往任何时候都多。
Next time you go to a public bathroom, take a look before you sit down on the toilet seat.
下次你去公共厕所，用马桶之前先看一下。
Critically, another group was asked to spend a minute writing down reasons for their judgment, before giving the rating.
更重要的是，另一组需要在给出评级前花一分钟先写下他们的判断理由。
He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before breakfast, and he believed—he hoped—that he looked passably well: doing all right.
早饭前，他从二十三楼走到夹层的门厅去取邮件。他相信——他希望——他看上去还过得去：一切都很好。
Furiously driving the goats before him, he bounded down the hill.
他赶着面前的山羊，拼命往山下冲。
Didn't we talk before about how the deeper down into the ocean you go, the greater the pressure?
我们之前不是讲过，越到海洋的深处，压强就越大吗？
He walked up and down the room, to keep his blood in motion, soliloquising as before.
他在房间里踱来踱去，像刚才那样自言自语，使他的血液不停地流动。
Before the grandfather had returned, Peter came racing down to the hut with all his goats.
在爷爷回来之前，彼得带着他所有的山羊跑到小屋。
The quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.
鉴于在研究开始之前，大部分人说他们宁愿逐渐减少吸烟量直到戒烟，因此这个戒烟率是特别可信的。
She asked the question after she had finished her supper and had sat down on the hearth-rug before the fire.
她吃完晚饭，坐在壁炉前的地毯上，问了这个问题。
Since the 1990s, population experts have predicted the number would grow to nine billion before it begins to slow down and possibly decrease.
自20世纪90年代以来，人口专家预测人口数量将增长到90亿，然后增长放慢，甚至可能减少。
It was some time before Heidi remembered that, after all, she had come down to meet the doctor.
过了好一会儿海蒂才想起，她毕竟是下来迎接医生的。
It was some time before Heidi remembered that, after all, she had come down to meet the doctor.
过了好一会儿海蒂才想起，她毕竟是下来迎接医生的。
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