前一年，她去了趟墨西哥，买回了手工做的桌布、镶有锡框的镜子以及纸花。
The year before, she visited Mexico and bought back hand-made table cloths, mirrors with frames of tin and paper flowers.
在四岁生日的前一周，杰克宣布他想要一个消防车形状的蛋糕。
A week before his fourth birthday, Jake announced that he wanted a cake in the shape of a fire truck.
她看起来和十年前一样年轻。
最重要的是在考试的前几周开始学习，不要都拖到考试前一天晚上！
The most important thing is to start studying a few weeks before the exams and not leave it until the night before!
在我们学校英语节的前一周，我的老师让我在全校师生面前做一个演讲。
A week before my school's English festival, my teacher asked me to make a speech in front of the whole school.
很多新娘甚至在婚礼前一年就已经开始挑选自己的婚纱礼服。
Many brides start searching for the perfect wedding dress as early as a year before the wedding day.
前一阵子我给还在蹒跚学步的孙子买了一辆色彩鲜艳的黄色木赛车，只花了九毛九。
A while ago I bought my grandson, a toddler, a bright yellow wooden racing car, for just 99 cents.
这一次，他的讲话引起了与前一次截然相反的反应：听众站起来长时间热烈鼓掌喝彩。
This time, the lecture caused a reaction that was diametrically opposite to the previous one: the audience rose to its feet in a long and enthusiastic ovation.
月球被认为是由约45亿年前一个火星大小的星体与当时仍然处于熔融状态的地球相撞后弹出的碎片所形成的。
The moon is thought to have formed from debris ejected into space after a Mars-sized body collided with the still-molten Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.
我对孩子们说，要是他们在期终考试前一个星期不看电视，那么我就在他们放暑假的第一个星期带他们去动物园看熊猫。
I told my kids if they stop watching TV for a week before their final exams, I'll take them to the zoo to see the pandas the first week of their summer vacation.
他就在终场哨声前的几秒钟内打进了制胜的一球。
He scored the winning goal just seconds before the final whistle.
也许你可以在工作前到露台上喝杯柠檬水，或者，在晚饭后陪孩子一起去抓萤火虫。
Maybe it's sipping lemonade on the patio before work or catching fireflies with your kids after dinner.
内森·萨瓦亚，一名36岁的前律师，以他令人难以置信的乐高艺术作品震惊了世界。
Nathan Sawaya, a 36-year-old former lawyer has stunned the world with his incredible LEGO artworks.
现在，我知道三十五年多前那个炎热的夏夜和我坐在旧木楼梯上的那个男人个子并不高，但是对于一个五岁的孩子来说，他就是个巨人。
I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant.
在澳大利亚，一只缎蓝园丁鸟在小树枝和草叶铺成的“林荫大道”前整齐地摆上蓝色鹦鹉的羽毛、白色蜗牛的壳，还有黄色和紫色的花朵；它的眼睛呈现惹人注目的蓝色。
In Australia, in front of his stick-and-grass avenue, a male satin bowerbird, whose eyes are a striking blue, displays blue parrot feathers, white snail shells, and yellow and purple blossoms.
一星期前我从北京飞到了上海。
今日清晨，我早早醒来，想到午夜钟声敲响前将做的一切，激动不已。
I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight.
约在30年前，我曾看过夕阳在大峡谷落下；如今，我想看着它从这里升起，将一层层不同颜色的岩石从上到下照亮。
Nearly thirty years earlier, I had seen the sun set over the Grand Canyon; now I wanted to watch it rise, lighting the layers of differently colored rocks from the top down.
毫无疑问社交媒体以一种我们十年前无法想象的方式把我们与朋友、家人和时事连接在一起。
There is no doubt that social media has connected us to our friends, family, and current events in ways that we couldn't even imagine a decade ago.
这位47岁的前奥运冠军在本周二的一次新闻发布会上说：“我一点压力都没有，觉得就是回家了。”
"I am under no pressure at all, I just feel at home," said the 47-year-old former Olympic champion at a press conference on Tuesday.
突然，他们来到一道瀑布前，那瀑布奔泻而下，注入洞底一处地下湖里。
Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake at the bottom of the cave.
公元前4世纪时的庄子提出过一个有名的问题——他是梦见自己是一只蝴蝶的庄子还是梦见自己是庄子的一只蝴蝶？
The well-known question posed by Zhuangzi in the 4th century B.C. - was he Zhuangzi who had dreamt of being a butterfly or was he a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi?
一小时前，几位记者就这件国际案件采访了律师。
Several journalists interviewed the lawyer about the international case an hour ago.
1989年1月，欧洲铁路共同体提出了一项建议，即在2020年前建成一个从瑞典延伸到西西里岛、从葡萄牙延伸到波兰的泛欧高速铁路网。
In January 1989, the Community of European Railways presented their proposal for a high speed pan-European train network extending from Sweden to Sicily, and from Portugal to Poland by the year 2020.
不久前，她在网上分享了一些有用的学习技巧。
一个世纪前，化学家斯万特·阿伦尼乌斯就人类影响地球气候的可能性展开了最早的辩论之一。
A century ago, chemist Svante Arrhenius started one of the first debates over the potential for humans to influence the planet's climate.
昨天我和李明参加了一个野外生存训练。就在黎明前，我们兴高采烈地步行出发了。
Li Ming and I took part in a wilderness survival program yesterday. Just before the dawn, we set out on foot in high spirits.
昨天我和李明参加了一个野外生存训练。就在黎明前，我们兴高采烈地步行出发了。
Li Ming and I took part in a wilderness survival program yesterday. Just before the dawn, we set out on foot in high spirits.
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