There were doctors and medicine long before there was health insurance.
不过健康保险是一个相对较新的概念，早在健康保险出现之前，就已经有了医生和医学。
Liu has worked on this street for 20 years, long before there were any tourists.
20年前刘慧根就开始在这条街上工作，那时还没有游客。
The fossil demonstrates that brooding behavior evolved long before there were birds.
这化石显示，早在鸟类出现之前，孵蛋的行为就已经演化出来。
This all supposedly happened about 4.4 billion years ago, long before there was any life on Earth to gaze up and see the strange sight of dual moons.
双月撞击被假定发生于距今44亿年前，距地球上出现生命还有很久，没有任何生物会仰头凝视双月辉空的奇异画面。
There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be.
我听说，在同样的那座城市出现很久以前，这里就有獾子了。
Long before Man lived on the Earth, there were fishes, reptiles, birds, insects, and some mammals.
在人类出现很早以前，地球上就出现了鱼类、爬虫类、鸟类和一些哺乳动物。
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。
There was a long silence before she spoke.
沉默了很长时间她才开口。
There was a long pause before she answered.
她停了好一会儿才回答。
There was a deep-rooted racial prejudice long before the two countries went to war.
早在两国交战之前就有了根深蒂固的种族偏见。
There it remains, sometimes for long periods, before emerging at the surface again.
在那里，地下水在重新涌出地表之前，往往可以保存很长一段时间。
There is still a long way to go before MRAM is ready for prime time.
在MRAM存储器达到万事齐备、只欠东风之前还有一段很长的路要走。
Long before the school of materialistic monism arose, the ground was removed so that there could be no foundation.
在唯物的一元论学派出现以前很久你们那根据早就被挖掉了，早没了基础。
Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.
行为主义学派,远在斯金纳提出他的理论之前就已经存在，受到了众多心理学家的拥护,比如约翰·华生。
Long before Richard II there was another king.King Tantalus was king of Phrygia which was where Turkey is now.
在理查德二世之前有另个国王，坦塔罗斯是佛里基亚的国王，现在这里属于土耳其。
Long before Richard II there was another king. King Tantalus was king of Phrygia which was where Turkey is now.
在理查德二世之前有另个国王，坦塔罗斯是佛里基亚的国王，现在这里属于土耳其。
While progress has been made, there is a long way to go before gender equality is reached.
尽管取得了一些进步，但在达到性别平等之前还有很长的一段路要走。
There is a long way to go before it could result in useable transplants, but it is an exciting vision.
在这种方法投入移植中正式使用前，可能还有很长一段路要走，但是这仍是令人激动的设想。
There is still a long way to go before we fully understand how cells sense and respond to the forces on them.
在我们完全理解细胞如何感知和响应各种效力之前，还有很长的路要走。
But there is still a long way to go before collections reach European levels in emerging markets or elsewhere in the rich world.
但在新兴市场，甚至其他地区，唱片业要达到欧洲（或者其他富裕国家）的水平，还有相当长的路要走。
There is a line of Angry Birds soft toys, Mattel is working on a board game and before long there will be a cartoon series, and, if all goes well, a film.
这是愤怒的小鸟毛绒玩具的路线，美泰正在致力于一款棋盘游戏，而且不久将会有卡通系列，如果一切顺利的话，会有一部电影。
Then the supermarket manager gave them trouble and they had to move to a courtyard in front of a retirement home, but before long the benches there were removed.
然后超市经理找了他们的麻烦，他们不得不移去一个退休房前面的院子里喝酒，但不久之后那儿的栅栏就被拆了。
Nobody expects a global deal at Cancun, but there will surely be one before too long.
在坎昆，没有人期待一个全球性的协议，但是，无疑地，趁着还不算晚应该制定一个。
But in fact there have been many ice ages, most of them long before humans made their first appearance.
但实际上，史上有很多冰河时代，而且大多在人类出现很久以前。
But in fact there have been many ice ages, most of them long before humans made their first appearance.
但实际上，史上有很多冰河时代，而且大多在人类出现很久以前。
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