Before the speech, a student at the school asked for advice about how to get the president's job.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

The Apology is a speech given before a large and largely anonymous audience of over 500 persons, the Assembly, the Court.

苏格拉底自辩篇》的听众,是大量匿名,超过，500，人的场合，议会法庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The speech of Socrates before the jury is perhaps the most famous attempt to put democracy itself on trial.

苏格拉底面对陪审团的演说,也许是最著名的试探,意图将民主本身推向审判台。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He closed his speech with the hope that the nation would come out of the war with greater unity than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

In each set, the first plague is accompanied by a notation of the time in the morning. It's also introduced by God's speech, when God says, "Present yourself before Pharaoh," and to do this in the morning.

在每一组中，第一次瘟疫都是发生在早上,可以从上帝的话中看出来，上帝说，今天早晨，“到法老面前去“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

On Friday,Mr.Gates gave his last policy speech before he retires as defense secretary on June thirtieth.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Lincoln was to give his inaugural speech before being sworn-in.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

We noted that many conservatives raised objections before the speech.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

That same year, then President John F.Kennedy vowed in a speech before the U.S.Congress to put a man on the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Secretary Clinton's Africa trip was meant to follow-up on the policies outlined in President Barack Obama's speech before Ghana's parliament last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

The White House took the unusual step of posting the president's remarks on its website 24 hours before the speech was delivered.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

In a speech before the German parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the new regulations on what she called "destructive" behavior by financial markets.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

He said he wanted to meet with the king before the speech in Cairo.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

In a statement issued just before the president's speech, General McChrystal said the long strategy review provided him with "a clear military mission and the resources to accomplish" it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Nearly all of Mr.Zardari's speech before parliament addressed domestic concerns.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

In a Labor Day speech before union workers on Monday, Mr.Obama said it is time for lawmakers to end the debate over health care and pass legislation for him to sign.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

But in a published commentary on the research,Simon Fisher, a speech and language researcher at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University cautions that before researchers can develop a drug therapy for stuttering,they will need to learn much more about the precise biochemical mechanism of the disorder.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11