It comes from earlier days when the Roman Catholic Church ruled that Catholics must not eat meat on Fridays.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

As I said earlier, that's an action plan, I'm certainly not going to second guess there are many action plan.

就像我刚才所说，这是一个行动计划，我当然不会去质疑这项计划，虽然说我们已经有很多的行动，计划。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

That question is not asking is the locomotive that were pointing to now the same as the caboose that we pointed to earlier.

我不是问,现在我指着的火车头,和刚才指着的车尾,是不是同一样东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But they could not rule out the possibility of a smaller effect similar to that seen earlier for strokes.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

They're not quite as potent as the cells from earlier because they've now differentiated somewhat.

它们不如早些的细胞有那样多的潜能,因为它们已经分化到一定程度了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The earlier study found comparable reductions from the use of other NSAIDs, but not from the use of acetaminophen.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

As I said earlier, this course is not a survey course of positive psychology.

正如我刚才所说，本课程并不是积极心理学的调研课。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But its lack of action did not stop the rise of a labor organization that had been formed a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Just almost all the islands in that sea are inhabited by Greeks, mostly by the Greeks that came in that first wave of immigrants earlier on, not colonized during the eighth century and afterwards.

那片海域的诸岛上居住的几乎都是希腊人,他们大多都是早期的,第一批移民,而非八世纪以后的殖民者

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Only two areas did not have an overfishing problem in either the new study or the earlier one.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

So, by the way, I don't mean this as a joke, in some sense there's always a third candidate and that comes from the problem we had earlier, because not voting is always an option.

顺便说一句,我不认为某种程度上说,是有三个选举人是一个笑话,这是由于一些由来已久的问题造成的,因为不投票也是一种选择

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But new research suggests that the deadly dinos may not have been as fierce as earlier believed.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

That's why in the earlier models of the atom, they're not horrible to sometimes think about just each n value as a little ring around.

这就是为什么在早期原子模型中，人们没有感觉到把每一个，n，都想象成,一个绕核的小圆圈有什么不妥。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some senators said there had not been such a crowd in the capitol building since the day Clay said goodbye to the Senate eight years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

And the point that I started with earlier, about the internal aspect of emotions, is it's not just out there, but inside as well.

我之前就提到过,关于情感内在方面的观点,情感不仅是外在的,也是内在的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

These new immigrants were not like those who came earlier.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

But first let's worry about the point that I was emphasizing earlier, namely, even if the soul is not very much like harmony, so what?

但首先让我们探讨一下,我之前强调的那一点，那就是即使灵魂和和声大为不同，那又如何？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

However,Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier this week that Iran will not stop the enrichment drive, and considers the matter closed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

We feel as though whether somebody is me or not should depend upon internal facts about me in the earlier stages or this stage and that stage, not about what's happening elsewhere,outside,extrinsic to these things.

我们感觉定义某人是不是自己,应该取决于自身内在的各阶段的事实，而不是除此之外在外界发生的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But on his only mission to the region, earlier this month, he did not get an invitation to visit Pyongyang.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

That's something physicalist or dualist can say but and this is not of--to make a good promise they offered earlier, it's not the only view available to physicalists, or for that matter dualists.

物理主义学者或二元论者都可认同,这个观点，但如同他们之前提到的,这并不是物理主义学者眼中,唯一存在的理论，二元论者也是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Earlier this week African delegates boycotted some talks because they said developed nations were not making concrete promises on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The IPCC retracted that forecast in a statement earlier this week after British media reports revealed that the data was not gleaned from scientific evidence.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

However,Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said earlier that Republicans are also concerned with policy,not politics.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Under his plan the large centralized radar facility proposed for the Czech Republic will not be needed, nor will the earlier generation of ground-based interceptors planned for Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Jiang also accused developed nations of abandoning the principle reached in earlier accords, which require them to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but do not make the same requirement of developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

He says Russia counts on reaching agreements resulting from the process discussed earlier, and also on a peaceful Iranian nuclear program that will not raise so many questions with Russia and the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

While ElBaradei has said Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" in not disclosing the plant's existence earlier, he used the news conference to sound a note of caution about Iran's intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

The U.N.World Food Program says it needs $500,000 to bring 250 metric tons of food to Birao next month because supplies that were pre-positioned earlier in the year are not sufficient to meet greater demand.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The outcome of the Saturday night drama had actually been sealed earlier in the day, when two Democratic senators who had not pledged their support for the bill announced that they would vote for it to advance to debate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23