在那一年之前，新年一般都是从3月25日开始，持续庆祝八天的。
Prior to that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25.
具讽刺意味的是，"O.K."虽然没能救得了VanBuren的竞选，但竞选却给了“O.K."新的活力——在那之前，它一直没能作为一个完成的词，比如像“O.W."（表示"ollwright"），那样流行起来。 （顺便说句，在我们开始觉得比19世纪的老土们牛B太多之前，"oll wright"真的就比几年前流行过的什么"excuuuse me!"
Ironically, while "O.K." didn't save Van Buren's campaign, the campaign gave "O.K." a new lease on life -- until then, it had never been as popular as a competing phrase, "O.W." (for "oll wright").
如果我们的调查正确的话，那么在法律开始变更之前就只剩下了时间问题，至少在那些更提倡自由的州里应该是这样。
If our poll is right, then it can only be a matter of time before laws start to change, at least in the more liberal states.
那些组成字母的一行行字每次开始写时都朝上挑，朝下冲的，而且还是在那些曲线和圈圈之前。
The lines that formed the letters started again each time on the upstroke, the downstroke, and before the curves and loops.
于是一个小组的员工就在那天晚上开始重新编写算法，并在周二之前解决了此问题。
A group of Googlers lacking exciting plans for the evening began re-writing the algorithm within hours and had solved the problem by Tuesday.
当粒子对撞机最初开始运作的时候，至少在那次泄漏事故之前，粒子流从来没撞击过。
When the LHC originally opened for business, before the leak, the beams never collided.
地下墓穴坐落于法国首都南部，这里在十八世纪晚期开始变成地下骨瓮，在那之前是废弃的矿道。
Situated in the south of the French capital city, the Catacombs are an underground ossuary that began to be used in the late 18th century, previously being disused mines.
这就是为什么十几年来我都一直把苹果电脑作为我的主要电脑来使用(甚至在那之前早得多的时候，我就已经开始使用苹果电脑工作了)。
This is why, for more than a decade, I've been using a Mac as my primary computer (and had been using Macs for some of my work long before that).
在我 1993 年加入Rational软件公司之前，我在一家著名的技术公司工作，在那里我开始使用OMT （该方法学是由JimRumbaugh 和他的公司开发的）。
TQ: Before joining Rational Software Corporation in 1993, I worked for another well-known technology company, where I was using OMT (the methodology developed by Jim Rumbaugh and company).
在游戏开始之前，我们会在那个临时展出馆休息。
不列颠某家族四名成员昨晚在那不勒斯与利物浦的欧罗巴联赛开始之前在意大利城被袭击。
Four members of a British family were attacked last night in Naples ahead of Liverpool's Europa League tie in the Italian city.
大学期间，你很有可能会结交一辈子的挚友。但在那之前，你必须从结交朋友开始。
You're very likely to make some lifelong friendships at college. But before you get there you have to start by making acquaintances.
21个月之前，在那个寒冬里开始的事情，绝对不应该在今天这个秋天夜晚，就结束了。
What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter can not end on this autumn night.
2008年底，巴菲特开始叹息各个子公司销售不佳的情况，在那之前还说过一些公司被迫关闭工厂、解雇工人。
Buffett began lamenting the poor sales at the units in late 2008, and has said previously that some businesses were forced to close plants and fire workers.
在鲈鱼渔期开始之前，他和他的父亲在那天晚上提前来钓鱼。
On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening.
你们的行星和世界即将于你们难以想象地极大地转变，在那不可逆转的点开始之前，你们还有时间考虑你们的选择。
Your Planet and your very reality is about to change in the biggest way you could struggle to imagine, and you still have time to consider all of your options, before the point of no return.
一个知情人士说，49瑞安，女演员和那个摇滚明星，59岁的前7个星期开始约会，Mellencamp和他的妻子被分开一段时间在那之前。
A source close to Ryan, 49, says the actress and the rock star, 59, began dating about seven weeks ago, and that Mellencamp and his wife had been separated for some time before that.
恶魔尝试收取他到期的灵魂，杰克的小脑袋又开始飞快的转动了起来，他说：“我会跟你走，但是，在我走之前，你可以帮我在那颗树上摘一个苹果么？”
The Devil tried collecting what he was due, but Jack thinking quickly, said, "I'll go, but before I do, will you give me an apple from that tree?"
15世纪中期，西班牙开始在加纳利和安地列斯群岛种植甘蔗。在此之前，食糖还是稀罕物。哪怕是在那以后，也只有富人才能买得起食糖。
Sugar was rare until the Spanish began to cultivate it in the Canaries and Antilles in the mid-1400s, and even then only the rich could afford it.
15世纪中期，西班牙开始在加纳利和安地列斯群岛种植甘蔗。在此之前，食糖还是稀罕物。哪怕是在那以后，也只有富人才能买得起食糖。
Sugar was rare until the Spanish began to cultivate it in the Canaries and Antilles in the mid-1400s, and even then only the rich could afford it.
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