I'm not perfect, but I'm much, much improved over how I was before.
我并不完美，但是我比从前有很大很大的改善。
'I can't say I'm more optimistic than I was before coming here,' Mr. Juncker added later.
容克后来又说，我不能说我比来这里之前更加乐观了。
I forgot who I was, and trying to retrace the person I was before was too painful, so I just shut those boxes.
我忘记了自己是谁，而且尝试找回自己是一件非常痛苦的事，所以我放弃了任何努力。
And I've also always found that I'm much closer to success after failing than I was before the (so-called) failure.
而且我总发现在所谓“一个接一个的失败”之后，我离成功更接近了。
The night before the test I was overcome by fear and despair.
考试的前一晚我被恐惧与绝望困扰着。
"Before she came around," she says, "I was somebody in this town."
“她来这之前，”她说，“我在这个镇上是个人物。”
My life was very hectic but empty before I met him.
我的生活在遇见他之前忙碌却空虚。
I had just enough time to finish eating before the bell rang and I was off to my first class.
我在铃响前刚好有时间吃完，然后就去上第一节课了。
'Is Tom here?' 'No, he was gone before I arrived'.
“汤姆在这儿吗？”“不在，我来之前他就走了。”
Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.
早在我去非洲之前，它就栩栩如生地在我的脑海中了。
I've been doing the same job, before that I was a secretary of the medical school at Birmingham, and further back I worked in the local government.
我一直在做同样的工作，在那之前我是伯明翰医药学校的秘书，再之前我在地方政府工作。
Before I was a literature professor, I was an accountant.
在我成为文学教授之前，我是一名会计。
I can't visualize what this room looked like before it was decorated.
我想象不出这个房间在装修之前是什么样子。
I had never ridden on a motor-cycle before. But it was too late to chicken out.
在那以前我从未骑过摩托车。但当时已来不及临阵脱逃。
To think I was lying on a beach only the day before yesterday.
想想吧，就在前天，我还躺在海滩上呢。
I was at the door before his words penetrated.
我走到门口才听懂了他说的话。
I was convinced there was a dent in the hood which hadn't been there before.
我确信车盖上有一个以前没有的凹痕。
It was some time before I realized the truth.
过了很长一段时间我才悟出真相。
Before I forget, there was a call from Italy for you.
趁我还记得，有一个从意大利打来的电话找你。
It was not long before I realized the enormity of my faux pas.
没过多久我就发现了我有多么的失礼。
I was surprised to hear them mentioned together: I had never connected them before.
听到有人把他们牵扯在一起我很吃惊；我以前从未把他们联起来想过。
Do you mind? I was here before you.
你别这样好不好？我比你先到。
I was on dialysis for seven years before my first transplant.
在第一次肾移植手术前，我已做了七年的透析。
My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant—before I knew her as my mother.
我和母亲在我还是婴儿的时候就分开了，后来我才知道她是我的母亲。
Check the weather before coming ! I was very sure that California was sunny all year around so I left all my jackets and sweaters in Paris.
来之前先看看天气！我非常确定加州全年都是阳光明媚的，所以我把所有的夹克和毛衣都留在了巴黎。
以前我很傻。
I was wondering what I could do to improve my paper before the final draft is due.
我想知道在终稿截止期之前，我能做些什么来完善我的论文。
I was thinking that I've really never seen it before.
我在想，我以前从来没有见过它的样子。
That night before bedtime, I was so upset that I took the little piece of blanket out from under my pillow and threw it in the wastebasket.
那天晚上临睡前，我非常烦躁不安，以至于从枕头底下拿出我的小毛毯，把它仍进了废纸篓里。
I was a bit nervous before I arrived here, but there was no reason to be.
我到这里之前有点紧张，但没有理由这样。
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