Before the war, many rural communities gathered around a bonfire to tell stories, discuss the day's events and resolve problems.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

While he was still in Luxembourg, just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States and finished his career in the Pacific Northwest where he helped make huge quantities of titanium.

他一直住在卢森堡，在二次世界大战爆发前，他移民到了美国,后半生在太平洋西北部,他制备了大量的钛结束了他的事业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Moving pictures from before World War Two showed a man named Buck Rogers landing on the planet Mars.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

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

Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Whatever the rules were before, they're off when we get into the Peloponnesian War.

无论以前的规则是怎样的,在伯罗奔尼撒战争中都不再合时宜

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Before she could go home,though, the war between France and Prussia began in eighteen seventy.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

First of all, it's worth remembering there are a lot of clear, undeniable similarities of all kinds, things you can measure, between South and North in the 40 years before the Civil War.

首先,值得记住的是有很多明显的,不可否认的共同点,各种各样的共同点,你在对比,内战发生前四十年里的南北双方时就能发现

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And war for the Negro was openly begun with stronger effort than before.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

And when you walk out today and you go through Woolsey Hall, if you haven't done this before, that that's full of the names of Yale College men who have died in war.

如果你还没穿过华西大厅话,当你走出教室,穿过那的时候,那里布满了阵亡的耶鲁大学生的名字

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A huge military fort was built there before the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

But others now say this period after the Civil War was a necessary step in creating a different kind of South from the one which had existed before.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

After all,the country had never before had a civil war.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The war ended before he could be sent to Europe.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Before the Civil War, most businesses were small.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

It will be on the agenda again when he visits Pakistan later in the week, before heading into the war zone itself.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"While passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us,let's be clear about what this moment demands, we are at war,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

"So,we expect the escalation of the war for the coming 72 hours before fixing the ceasefire."

VOA: standard.2009.10.11