the retention bonuses were put in place at the beginning of 2008, before AIG received any bail-out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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The beginning of fall semester, actually right before classes start,

秋季学期开始，实际上就是在开始上课之前，

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General Myers spent four years as the top U.S.military officer, starting just weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through the early successes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and ending in late 2005, just before the major outbreak of violence in Iraq and well before the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan during the last two years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

I'm proud to say that I have been involved in most of the president's policy decisions, beginning before he was president all the way through to the end.

我可以自豪地说,我参与了总统的大多数政策决定,在他当选总统之前就开始了,一直到最后。

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I can get this to show us how far up we are supposed to go, by placing it on some kind of grid here," and this is this--as I said before, the beginning of the first graph in the history of the West.

我可以通过将它放置在这样的网格中,来表明我们的声音应该有多高,而这就是,正如我以前所说,西方历史上最早的图示法

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Now the problem with that is a problem I mentioned before, that most human genes are not just a straight sequence from beginning to end of the protein that you're interested in.

但现在的问题,是我之前提到过的,大多数人类基因不是一个连续的序列,从头到尾都对应你想要的蛋白质

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