But before this time, G.I.was an unofficial military term for describing army supplies made out of galvanized iron.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

I want to spend some time on that until we talk about-- before we talk about development of the polio vaccine.

我想多花些时间讨论这个问题,在我们讨论,在我们讨论脊髓灰质炎疫苗的发展之前

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It turns out that slightly before the stack, slightly before this conceptual chunk of memory, there's other things called environment variables that we may see over time but elsewhere in memory are other things.

结果是稍微在堆之前，稍微在这个内存块概念之前，另外还一个东西叫做环境变量,我们之后可能看到，内存中的其他地方,是其他的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

the doctor said, "you should draw up a few general rules as guidance before you pass a second time through the dangers of youth.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

This is why he's continually placing the imaginative origin of the poem back to the very dawn of time, perhaps even back before if you can imagine such a time -- before the very dawn of time.

这就是为什么弥尔顿总是试图把想象中的这首诗的起源,推至时间开始的时候，甚至更早,-如果你们能想象这样一个时间--在时间开始之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Before he became a power hitter, he had been among the best pitchers of his time.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

We talked about the inevitability of death; we talked about the variability, that people have different lengths of time before they die.

我们讨论过了死亡的不可避免性;,我们讨论过了其可变性，不同的人在他们死之前有所的时间长度不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Army commanders say it is only a matter of time before the Taliban-style group would be completely destroyed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

How would it strike you if you knew nothing about it, if you had never heard of it before, if you open up the covers of this book for the first time?

如果你对新约一无所知，如果你对新约为所未闻，如果这是你，第一次翻开新约，会有什么感觉？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Engineers say the closure of the Ignalina plant in the town of Visaginas happened on New Year's Eve shortly before midnight local time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Excavations at Jericho and Ai indicate that both of these towns were ; laid waste at least 200 years before the probable time of Joshua; so there weren't even any walls in Jericho at the time of Joshua.

耶利哥和艾城的挖掘都显示这两个城镇,都在约书亚前200年就已被毁损;,因此在约书亚时期，耶利哥根本就没有城墙。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But for the time being, nothing in terms of improving the number of soldiers before the London conference, where we are supposed to talk about strategy,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

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

Speaking before the House of Commons, Mr.Brown said since military operations in Iraq have ended, the time had come for a thorough inquiry into the war.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

If you see the pictures of Mike, especially here well before he had his surgery at the time he was about 30 skiing downhill.

如果看了迈克的照片，特别是这张他接受手术前的照片,就在他接受手术的时候，即他大约30岁左右时，他还在从事高山滑雪。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

The information was leaked to the media early last week, shortly before Semenya was due to run in the final of the women's which she won in the fastest time of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

And then I'd wander in, we'd typically visit for the rest of that time before 7:30.

然后我就走进办公室，一般在7：30之前,都会一直谈话。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And,he adds,today's generation of American Southeast Asians, born to parents who spent time in refugee camps before emigrating, "want to prove their loyalty to this country and that they're as American as anybody else."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

for exam 2, you still need to know and understand everything you learned in exam 1, but you can put off learning it completely until we get through, at least, next Wednesday before we start maybe spending time on these concepts outside of class.

为了掌握第二次考试的内容，你仍然需要知道和理解,在第一次考试前所学的全部知识，但是你可以先放一放，等到我们进行到，至少在下周三我们可能开始不在课堂上,讲这些内容之前。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So before we leave it, I've been making a point in this class of coming back to reality from time to time, so this is a very simple model of the soccer game in reality.

在我们结束讨论之前,我来强调一下,我们应该回到现实中,这是一个很简单的足球模型

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

Now we know that Milton was blind probably well before the time he began writing Paradise Lost, and therefore, of course, he was then unable to read.

现在我们知道弥尔顿很可能失明了,这早于他开始写《失乐园》的时间，因此，他不能通过眼睛阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So supposed that I give you 16 elements to sort, well, following the logic before, the running time involved in sorting 16 elements is gonna be twice the running time 16 of sorting 8 elements, left half and right half plus 16 - and again, a little sanity check, 16 means-- just the merge steps, right?

现在要对16个元素进行排序，根据之前的逻辑，对16个元素排序,要花的时间是对8个元素排序所花时间的,2倍，分别用于左半部分和右半部分，再加上6,这里16是-,做合并的步数，对吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One other remark before we leave this, in the game we played last time, in the investment game, one feature of that game was that the more you thought other people were going to invest, the more you wanted to invest.

在继续讲下面的内容前,我再多说几句,上一讲的投资博弈有一个特征,就是如果你越认为大家会投资,你就越想投资

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选