Tennessee said yes to women's basketball long before it was a popular thing to do.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

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

The majority of Englishmen were calling for the return of their nation's rightful monarch. It wasn't long before the revolution failed and the Stuart monarchy was restored.

大部分英国人都在呼吁国家的,合法君主归位，不久,革命失败了，斯图亚特王朝复辟。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It did not take long before my friend's dishonesty was discovered.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

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 not long before American soldiers reached the European continent.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

"As long as I can remember, it was animals,animals. Even before I could talk, I was watching earthworms and things, reading Doctor Doolittle books, wanting to learn the language of animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18