They announced their new album only a week before it went on sale to avoid the usual publicity created by critics.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

You'll also notice that this thing goes through the entire list, even if the list is sorted before it gets partway through.

你也能注意到，它始终会遍历列表,甚至列表在排序之前,就是有序的也是这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Maybe you should leave before it gets too dark, so that you don't have to walk too far.

也许你该在天黑之前就动身回去了，这样你就不用走那么远了。

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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 book has to be tested. It has to be tried by the public, by a reading public, before it can be censored.

这本书必须检测，它必须被大众检测，在它被控制之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In that event,astronomers were able to observe the icy comet long before it struck the solar system's biggest planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

and your only job during this tasks is to press the button when that target comes on before it leaves the screen.

而你在这些任务中唯一要做的事,就是在目标出现未消失前按下按钮。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

LCROSS will then study the soil thrown up to ten kilometers above the lunar surface before it too crashes into the moon.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

If we weren't so pressed for time, I kinda wanna see how long we could get away with this before it gets awkward, but that, in fact, is an infinite loop t hat's hopefully deliberate.

如果有时间，我想看看,我们需要花多长时间解决这一问题，事实上，它是我故意,使用的无穷循环。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

You will see all the fish later. This is what happens before it's made into fish sticks.

你待会儿会你看到的全是鱼,鱼变成冻鱼条的过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

It can travel almost four hundred kilometers before it needs recharging, depending on how fast it is driven.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.

它可以坚持用10分钟,之后就会从那个廉价订书钉里掉出来。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark.Then I'll go,too."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

So up to this point, before it was really established that yes, light is like a particle sometimes, there was this very strong distinction between what is light and what is matter.

所以关于这个观点，在它被真正确立之前，光有时候像粒子，在什么是光和什么是物质之间,有一个非常巨大的区别。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

This is very important, because when you buy a rope, they will tell you how much tension it can take before it'll snap.

这非常重要,因为你去买绳子,他们会告诉你,绳子能承受的最大拉力是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The mixture then goes through two more processes before it is shaped into a mold form.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

And we might think, look, this is one of the negative things about the human condition that we get a taste of life-- nothing more--before it's snatched away.

我们可能会想，瞧，这是关于人类处境的一个负面的内容,我们尝到了生命的滋味-,仅此而已，在它被夺走前。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

To save lives, a tsunami must be recognized as such before it can reach land.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

It starts even before it goes in our mouth.

食物甚至在还没入口时就已经起作用了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So Elvis was just as popular after his military service as he was before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So "Luck" was the name they chose for him, adding before it,the first name "Tommy."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

This is years to go and so 12T would be the number of months to go before it ends.

也就是现在至到期日的年份数量,因此12T是现在至到期日的月份数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Tennessee said yes to women's basketball long before it was a popular thing to do.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

and you failed to invest in that stock right before it took off through the charts.

你却没来得及在这只股票大涨之前及时投资。

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I would just get all my work done, like the weekend before it was due.

我会在周末之前把所有的工作都做完。

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