But it would be many years before there were musical recordings or regular radio broadcasts.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

A couple of announcements before we get started: tomorrow there will be a 10 minute quiz in recitation based upon the content of homework one.

在我们开始之前有几点声明：,明天会有一个10分钟的小测验,详细叙述课后作业内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It's one element like I claimed before it's sorted and so there's no work to be done.

当有1个元素时，在比较前就知道它是有序的,那就没必要再进行比较了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There was what seemed to be a minor problem during the ground tests before launch.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

right, he's saying, wouldn't it be great just to have it there before us?

是的，意思是如果仅仅面对某事物而不去思考不是很好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There are only three shuttle flights remaining before the fleet is set to be retired, later this year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The dial tone is that state of awareness of the divine that Buddy speaks of when he says- when he speaks of being with God before God said, "Let there be light."

拨号音是神学意识的体现,巴蒂曾提过，当他提到在上帝说,让光芒普照大地，这句话前就与上帝同在时说过“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"Whereas if you send seeds, they have to be planted, they have to cultivated, they have to be harvested before there's an impact."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

How can there be a right to private property even before there is any government?

但私有财产权利怎么能在,政府建立之前就产生呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The Palestinians say there must be some progress on the settlement issue before any meeting takes place.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

So, he went to where people thought Troy might be and he began digging there, and before you know it, he discovered a mound filled with cities, which he believed was Troy.

因此,他来到人们认为的特洛伊城的所在地,然后,开始挖掘,然后你们知道的,他发现了土堆之中的城市,他相信那就是特洛伊城

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"If there was a failure to take appropriate action before the shootings, there must be accountability.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

There will probably be a few of you who are here in the class who weren't here before so I'll mention a few things in just a moment about class requirements again.

也许在座的同学当中,有一部分人没有上过前面的课,所以我快速简单地回顾一下,课程要求

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She said there should be presidential elections in Angola "in a timely manner" and continued electoral reforms in Liberia and Nigeria before their respective elections in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

Sure, there'd be some new particular puzzle you hadn't seen before, but you'd sort of step up a level and say, "Although I haven't seen this particular one before, I've seen crossword puzzles before.

当然肯定有你没见过的特殊填字游戏，但你会退一步说，“虽然我没见过这个特殊的填字游戏，但我见识过填字游戏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But there were serious flaws that must be addressed before future elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.

在陷入困境之前的很长一段时间内,他们可以承受亏损,也可以假设不会有任何问题发生,但是原则上讲是有可能会出问题的,这就是我们面临的现状

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Risley says the challenges remain daunting, although there are hopes the fighting may be over before winter, when the refugees' needs will increase sharply, and weather hampers aid deliveries.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

What are we to make of these laws, ? as I've asked before? In one sense, there seems to be a genuine moral content to Hobbes' laws of nature which can : be reduced to a single formula: Seek peace above all other goods.

就像我曾经说过的那样，我们会怎样制定这些法则呢，从某种角度看，在霍布斯的自然法中,似乎有一个真正的道德内涵,可以简化成一个公式：,在一切物质层面之上寻求和平。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"I think that there is a realism on our part that it will be some time before Afghanistan is able to sustain its security forces entirely on its own,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Because there are only a couple of previous records of eruption at this particular volcano, it is difficult to judge either how long the activity will go on there, or how long the volcano might then be dormant before it goes active again."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

If stock price option -if stock options tend to be issued as announced by the company later, just before stock prices go up, there's no way that that can be right because nobody can know exactly when the stock price is going to go up.

如果股票期权价格...,如果就像公司事后宣称的一样,公司恰好是在股价上涨之前,发行的股票期权,这是不可能做到的,因为没有人可以确切知道,股票价格何时会上涨

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In my view, we need especially to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era, and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.

所以我认为,我们得研究学习古时的,西方文明体系,认真的对待其中,实用智慧的潜在价值,特别是古希腊人的经验

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选