Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who is traveling to the United States this week, told reporters prior to his departure the doctors had assured him the king's health was not a cause for concern.

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What is culinary in one generation for example, the devices of crime fiction prior to the work of Dostoyevsky, become absolutely central.

一代人的口味,比如说，陀思妥耶夫斯基前,犯罪小说中常用的表现手法，曾经是绝对主流。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I had been living in Japan for two years prior to meeting her. I'd been over there,

在认识她之前，我在日本住了两年。那段时间我一直呆在日本，

从朋友到恋人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Prior to the exams I will post previous exams online, so you have a feeling for how these exams work and so on.

考试前我会把历年真题放在网上,以便大家熟悉考试模式

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Prior to the bailout money for the banks, the banks were lending a certain amount, after the bailout money, the banks were lending less.

在拯救银行的措施实施之前，银行在贷款，而救市之后，银行价款量反而少了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The strategic goals are the following: course six we want to help prepare freshmen and sophomores who are interested in majoring in course six to get an easy entry into the department, especially for those students who don't have a lot of prior programming experience.

以下是关键的目标：,我们希望帮助对于通过主修,从而进入本系这条捷径,非常感兴趣的大一大二生，尤其是那些,以前没有编程经验的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And similarly, particularly for those less comfortable, do we offer prior to the start of each week for a new piece at what we dub a walkthrough whereby one of the teaching fellows will literally start on the first page, give you a mental framework for the week's problems and talk about the ideas that it covers, and then walk through the piece set so that you have a roadmap of sorts that you can follow.

同样，特别对于那些不熟悉编程跟不上进度的同学，每周上课前都可以预习新的知识点,一名教师从第一页开始,对于每周的问题,都给你们简历一个心理框架,并讨论它所涵盖的思想，然后了解了每个部分之后,就可以有个学习的路线图。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I don't know who's coming next class, or what but I'll set up a few minutes prior, at the beginning of the class, for people just to introduce themselves to the person next to them so they have some sort of resource in the class.

我不知道下节课会有谁来,有什么情况,不过我会在课程开始的时候,先安排几分钟,让你们向前后左右的同学,进行一番自我介绍,这样你们就能在这个班里,认识一些新同学了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If you've done a lot prior programming, this is probably not the best course for you, and if you're in that category, I would please encourage you to talk to John or I after class about what your goals are, what kind of experience you have, and how we might find you a course that better meets your goals.

如果你做过很多编程工作，这门课也许不适合你，如果你属于这一部分人的话，我会鼓励你下课以后找我,或者John谈谈你的目标何在，你有过什么经验，还有我们怎么才能给你,找到更适合你目标的课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Course assistants as we use the jargon are alumni of CS50 who return to the course for a couple of hours a week having taken it in prior years, to help you, the newest batch of students, one on one with office hours, with problem sets; and similarly do the CS function as they might in many courses.

课程助理用我们的行话说就是CS50校友0,他们在前几年一直都是一周回来几个小时,来帮助你们这些新生，在上机的时候以一对一的方式，帮助你们完成这些问题集,在很多其他课程中他们也是这么做的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选