He would not leave,however, if before then he received new orders or supplies.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The answer is generally not because if you buy the stock before it goes ex-dividend, you get--you have to pay a higher price, but you get the dividend.

答案一般来说是不用,如果你买了股票,是在除息之前买的,你的买入价高,但能分到红

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What we need to really become convienced of the immortality of the soul even if we were convinced, is not the mere suggestion that the soul was around before our birth.

能真正说服我们,灵魂是不朽的,即使我们承认灵魂不朽，并不仅仅是因为,灵魂存在于出生之前这样的推测。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

" let the leaders of Eastern Europe know that if they took a path of reform the Soviet Union would not interfere militarily as it had done before Hungary Czechoslovakia .

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

If the right to private property is natural, not conventional, if it's something that we acquire even before we agree to government, How does that right constrain what a legitimate government can do?

如果私有财产是与生俱来的，而非约定俗成，如果这是在我们同意组建政府前就拥有的，这个权利又如何能限制合法政府的行为呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If one were faced with starvation, then seeking out fat as we discussed before, is a pretty good idea, but if one is not deprived of calories, then having fat may not be so helpful.

如果一个人面临饥饿,像我们之前讨论的去寻求脂肪,是个好主意,但是如果一个人不消耗热量,那么摄取脂肪就没什么用了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I'm doing a test there to say, x if the string x is less than the value of b, and x does not appear before b as strings, then I was going to do, oh, a couple of things, because they're at the same block level.

我正在做一个测试来看看，字符串,是不是小于b的值，而且x不在b之前作为字符串出现，如果是真的话我就要做，一系列的操作，因为他们是在同一个块等级上。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选