Their chief concerns with this are,number one, the price tag of whatever proposal that Democrats are creating and,number two, the concern that their own health care will not be the same as it was before a bill gets passed,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

What was neat about it is before that time, the predominant species to use for air conditioning or refrigeration was ammonia.

在这之前是很整洁的，之前最主要的用于空调或者冰箱的,物质是氨。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So it's true. Before, it was like a butcher place where they cut the cows and pigs and everything.

是这样的。以前它像个杀牛、猪等动物的屠宰场。

关于肉品市场区 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He moved around very slowly as if every move he made was carefully thought about before he made it.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

So the question was-- First, it was the accusation before the question, that I'm holding a sort of double standard.

其问题是,首先,在这个问题之前他指责,我在施行双重标准

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The group had been nominated seven times before it was finally honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

But he started--the pigeons started to think, effectively, what was it I did just before that last piece of corn came?

那些鸽子会想,上一粒谷粒掉过来之前我做了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was Richard Nixon who brought home most of the troops before South Vietnam fell to the north in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

I mean it's understandable-- this was before 1879 which was when Red Cliff was founded, and long before Harvard became co-ed.

这是可以理解的-,那是1879年之前，雷德克利夫学院还没成立，远在哈佛成为男女合校之前。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Deuteronomy contains northern traditions from before the fall of Israel which was in 722, but it was clearly finalized in the exile.

申命记》中包含了以色列陷落前的北方传统,它陷落于722年，最终结束了流放。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It was a jail that held the famous English pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew before they were hanged.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

So up to this point, before it was really established that yes, light is like a particle sometimes, there was this very strong distinction between what is light and what is matter.

所以关于这个观点，在它被真正确立之前，光有时候像粒子，在什么是光和什么是物质之间,有一个非常巨大的区别。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Before the old man and old woman could stop it, the basket of babies was swept out of the boat.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It has been tempered in a celestial fire in ether, and it was the ether of the ethereal heavens that had always been thought -throughout the Renaissance and long before, of course -- to be the most perfect substance imaginable.

它是在广阔苍穹的天国之火中被锻造出，也是飘渺的天堂中的以太,不断地被提及,-贯穿于文艺复兴的始终，当然--是可想见的最完美的物质。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

And then,lo and behold it turns out that his widow, to whom he confessed various infidelities before expiring, was pregnant; indeed,he was the father.

之后,他的遗孀怀孕了,他在断气前向她承认曾经有过不忠,但他确实是孩子的父亲

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

As president, it was not long before he got into trouble in the battles of politics and government.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

It was developed before people knew about atoms and molecules.

它是在人们知道,原子和分子之前发展起来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Let's come back to - was it Clara Elise-- where was Clara Elise before?

我们回顾一下克莱拉?埃莉斯的观点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It was a little before one o'clock in the afternoon when Paul arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Okay. So what happened next was he then started to run that faster, twice as fast as it had been before, changing rate of harmonic pattern. Okay?

好的，比以前的快两倍，比以前的快两倍，改变了泛音的方式，改变了泛音的方式，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Its power was crushed. It would be more than forty years before America's steelworkers were organized again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

That's correct. So her answer was, if it was a full parabola, then we know it would've been at the ground before I set my clock to 0.

她说,如果运动轨迹为一条完整的抛物线,那么它在我们所设定的零时刻之前,就已经落地了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It was thought that a civilian ship could get into Charleston Harbor before state forces could act.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And now "Get Crunk," as I was aware from having heard it before, involves the consistent refrain of "Get crunk" Extremely bad word, "Get crunk" Extremely bad word, and so I said "No."

我之前在听"玩旷课乐吧"时就发现,这首歌的副歌部分包含了,连续的不和谐歌词,因此我说"不行"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And it was the capital of the New Mexico territory before the territory became a state.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is not the case--well, before the British gave Hong Kong back, Hong Kong was a crown colony, it was British territory.

这和Apoikia不是一回事,例如英国归还香港之前,香港是英国的殖民地,是它的领土

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选