It was the seventeenth century before Newton determined the freezing point of water.
那是17世纪，牛顿确定水的凝固点之前。
Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.
在十九世纪以前，对海洋感兴趣的科学家寥寥无几。
Before the nineteen century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.
在十九世纪以前，对海洋感兴趣的科学家寥寥无几。
Before the rules of diplomatic precedence were worked out in the early sixteenth century, rival ambassadors often fought for the most honourable seating position at a ceremony.
在16世纪早期外交优先规则制定之前，敌对的大使经常在仪式上争夺最尊贵的座位。
Savile Row was inhabited largely by surgeons before the tailors moved in during the 19th century, and tailors' influence can be seen in the surgeon's cuff.
在19世纪裁缝搬进来之前，萨维尔街的大部分居民是外科医生，裁缝的影响可以从外科医生的袖口看出来。
As you know, we've been looking at different kinds of art and craft that were practised by the Maori people of New Zealand—at least before the Europeans began to arrive in the 18th century.
如你所知，我们一直在研究新西兰毛利人所习惯做的不同种类的艺术和工艺——至少在18世纪欧洲人到来之前是这样。
Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530—before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping—and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century.
威尼斯的航运业从1530年左右荷兰和英国船只大量进入地中海之前开始衰落，到16世纪末已经明显落后了。
He was born six years after the century began, and died ten years before it ended.
他于本世纪开始的六年后出生，又在距离本世纪结束的十年前去世。
In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before.
在上个世纪发现了比以往任何一个世纪都多的惊人的事情。
According to Webb, England already had a military imperial policy for more than a century before the American Revolution.
根据韦伯的说法，在美国独立战争前一个多世纪，英国就已经有了军事帝国政策。
This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.
这种开发已经达到了如此极端的程度以至于，目前看来在本世纪末之前，将有数十万物种灭绝。
Think of Gallileo's 17th-century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake's harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton.
想想17世纪，天主教会对加利莱奥反叛的信仰进行了审判，诗人威廉·布莱克对艾萨克·牛顿的机械论世界观进行了严厉的批评。
It was the nineteenth century before Rafacla Esposito, a baker from Naples, began to sell the first modern pizzas.
直到19世纪，那不勒斯的面包师拉法尔卡·埃斯波西托才开始销售第一批现代披萨。
Before the early nineteenth century, books were hand-bound using heavy materials such as wood, leather, gold, silver and jewels.
十九世纪早期以前，书籍都是使用笨重的材料，如木头、皮革、金、银和宝石等手工装订而成的。
Before the 20th century, no one lived here, nor would anyone have wanted to.
在20世纪之前无人居住于此——当然也没人愿意这么做。
Chess, for example, began in India before the sixth century.
例如，国际象棋最早起源与六世纪前的印度。
Sociology was not yet a discipline, but before the century was out, mass idealisation of this sort would lend itself to the scientific study of charisma and group psychology.
虽然社会学还不成为一门学科，但在一个世纪前它就已出现了，并且这种大量出现的理想化（构想）将有助于在感召力领域和集团心理学领域的科学研究。
The great [Carolus] Linnaeus, a century before, working from dried samples brought back from China by earlier explorers, concluded that the two were distinct taxa: Thea viridis and Thea bohea.
一个世纪以前，伟大的卡罗乌斯林奈根据早期探险家所带回来的茶叶死亡标本研究后认为这明显是两类物种，翠绿茶和红褐茶。
Sir David Lyndsay was a poet who lived in Scotland almost a century before William Shakespeare.
大卫·林赛是一位苏格兰诗人，他早于威廉·莎士比亚近一个世纪。
Before the late 19th century there was no official record of what took place in Parliament, although national, regional and local newspapers covered Parliament's proceedings in detail.
19世纪末前，议会所见所闻尚未有正式纪录，但到此际全国各区各地报章都详尽涵盖国会议程。
Hobhouse worked as a leader writer on the Manchester Guardian in the late 19th century, before taking up a newly created chair in sociology at the University of London in 1907.
19世纪后期，霍布·豪斯曾在《曼彻斯特卫报》(《卫报》的前身)担任主笔。1907年，他前往伦敦大学，担任了当时新创建的社会学系的系主任。
When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.
我从军是在本世纪开始之前，而这是我童年的希望与梦想的实现。
Indeed, it took tobacco critics half a century before the relevant committees in Congress had enough anti-tobacco members to pass legislation allowing the FDA to regulate tobacco as a drug.
实际上，烟草批评人士经过半个世纪的努力，才说服相关国会委员会，以立法形式允许美国食品和药品管理局将烟草列为药物。
The paper, however, had to wait nearly half a century before getting another remarkable editor.
尽管如此，这份报纸还要再等几乎半个世纪才能迎来下一位非凡的主编。
Bucking occasionally on the rail, we began to cross a series of viaducts built a century before over the bends in the river.
路轨有时拱起，我们开始跨越河湾上一连串建于上世纪的桥梁。
A child who becomes part of our soci-ety might have to wait a century before his turn in the cycle arrives, when he can become a changeling and reenter the human world.
成为我们中间一分子的那个孩子，或许要等上一个世纪才能轮到他换生，并再次进入人类世界。
A child who becomes part of our soci-ety might have to wait a century before his turn in the cycle arrives, when he can become a changeling and reenter the human world.
成为我们中间一分子的那个孩子，或许要等上一个世纪才能轮到他换生，并再次进入人类世界。
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