Because before,as you remember, the term "disproportionate use of force" was used,as if there is a proportionate use to occupy other countries' territory."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The Christian Church might have stepped into the breach and imposed obedience and uniformity, because before terribly long, all of the West had been Christianized.

这时基督教试图接管国家,宣扬服从和统一的思想,因为很早以前,基督教在西方就根深蒂固了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

because you've already done it or you don't need to do something because you've already done it before.

因为你之前已经做过，或者你觉得因为之前做过就没有必要再做了。

I've already 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You have no need of your courage, John Carter, because you already knew the answer before you asked the question.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Higher entropy basically because you're forming molecules of gas where there weren't any before, and there's more disorder in the gas phase than in the liquid. That is, the gas phase molecules have more freedom to roam.

高的熵是因为,我们产生了以前不存在的气体分子,气体的无序程度比液体大，换句话说,气相的分子，有更多的到处游荡的自由度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This is called an indirect method because the ink is put on the cut form before it goes on the paper.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

The correct complement is made because of these principles of Watson-Crick base pairing that we talked about before.

剪接配对的正确性源自,沃森克里克碱基互补配对原则的作用,这我们讲过的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Another black writer dismissed Ellison because Ellison demanded that writing skills must be learned before political ideas can be expressed.

VOA: special.2010.09.19

I think they may have to have a Basel III before too long because everything gets more and more complex in the world.

我认为不久就会推出第三次巴塞尔协议,因为世上万事都变得越来越复杂了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This is because parents give resources,education and medical care to their boys before giving them to girls.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

And this will have to go up before The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry before they approve it because they fought over element 106 for the longest time, but I think this will go through fairly quickly.

但还是要往上申请,直到国际纯粹与应用化学联合会,因为同意,他们为106号元素抗争了很久，但我想这个应该会很快通过。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Marian was shocked. Never before had anyone insulted her because of her race.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Mulciber fell long before Homer because Mulciber fell long before the creation of the earth -- and it's Milton, and it's no other poet before Milton, who's finally able to set the record straight. Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.

莫西伯在荷马出世前就堕落了因为,他早在大地被创造前就堕落了，是弥尔顿，在弥尔顿之前没有别的诗人，能够最终印证这个记录，弥尔顿在这里坚持的是,所有异教神原本都是堕落天使。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That may be because he died before his twentieth birthday.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

A lot of journals do blind reviewing now because of the evidence I talked about before regarding sexual stereotypes, that whether it has a male name or a female name makes a difference. So those are not-- those are group level in that they're not saying, "You get rid of your prejudices by trying harder."

现在很多报刊都审查论文都是匿名的,原因就是我刚才讲的,性别刻板印象，名字会透露作者是男性或女性,这样会影响审查公正，所以…,这些群体要摆脱刻板印象，并不是一味压抑就行的“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And now since we have the information on the Internet at least in the United States of what the most popular names are, the percentage of kids who get them actually is going down because people are able to avoid them much more successfully than they did before."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

在宗教研究中我们喜欢用这两个术语，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因为AD其实是Anno，Domini的缩写，即“主的年份“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"It is a significant find within Sierra Leone because it has never happened before in Sierra Leone."

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Trains are fairly new to me because I just got the job and before I got the job,

火车对我来说还比较陌生，因为我刚刚得到这份工作，而在这之前，

火车满载着幸福 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He says his government will continue to plead its case before its international partners because it needs their assistance now more than ever.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

It's a good question. As far as Accounting here, it's because I had done Accounting before.

问得好。现在会学会计是因为我之前做过会计。

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But if it gets in here, there ain't no telling because nobody went through this before."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the military has yet to launch a ground offensive there because it says it is consolidating gains in the Swat Valley before expanding the anti-insurgency activity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

He says,But because I'm a generous mad scientist, before I torture you,what I'm going to do is give you amnesia.

但因为我是宽厚的疯狂科学家，在折磨你之前，我会先让你失忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the barn before a show as she dressed her mount Angel, Willms said she chose the RCMP because of the opportunities it offers and because of its national reputation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

This is a really good topic to do the class before an exam because it's a little bit of a lighter topic.

这对于考试之前的一节课来说,是一个非常好的课题,因为这是一个稍微轻松一点的课题。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What do I learn from the period? How？ Remember, you cannot peek into Chapters 6 and 7, because you've seen it before.

我能利用周期得到什么结论,怎么做,记住,你不能跳到第六章和第七章,即使你看过了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选