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

VOA: special.2010.02.14

He published a treatise that he had written earlier on grammar, inventing his own system for the understanding and the learning of the Latin language.

发表了一篇他之前写的关于语法的论文，在这篇论文中他创建了自己的一套理解和学习,拉丁文的体系。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

but they were saying the funds, they were low on funds, so they were trying to close it much earlier,

但公园的资金却出现了短缺，所以他们试着要提早关门。

河滨公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He captured images of the spot and studied a picture that he had taken earlier of the same area on Jupiter.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Some people asked me, if they bought the earlier version of the text, you can find the translation to the earlier version of the text on these question numbers.

有人问我，如果他们买了这本书的早期版本，你们找到这本书早期版本的翻译,关于这些问题的数字。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Earlier work found that male stock traders made more money on days when their level of the male hormone testosterone was higher.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

So, literally earlier today when I was on my way to campus I emerged from the Harvard Subway Station and I was about to exit the station up the stairs when I noticed this older woman who was standing by one of these things.

今天早些时候，在我从哈佛地铁站,到学校的路上,我即将走出地铁站，上楼梯时,我注意到一个老太太站在,这样的东西旁边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the two-man Gemini space flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

with fellow Princetonian and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who had appeared on our program earlier, as co-chair of the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund.

他和兼任普林斯顿校友及,前参议院多数派领袖比尔·弗斯特，他之前也曾经出现在我们节目上，共同担任,克林顿-布什海地基金会主席。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Earlier this year, a professor at the University of Western Australia commented on the overuse of glyphosate.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

I don't know how much you've seen, but quite often the way you learned physics earlier on in high school is probably different from the way professional physicists think about it.

我不知道你们对物理有多少了解,但你们以前在高中所学的物理知识,和资深物理学家们的看法,常常是很不一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The scientists based their study on earlier evidence that turmeric has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory qualities.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

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

Three judges on a federal appeals court had earlier sided with the city of New Haven.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.

语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Earlier this month, on July twelfth, Neptune reached the same area in the sky that it occupied when it was first observed by Johann Galle.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

I mentioned earlier that we used to be on the gold standard and central banks were gold standard institutions that were trying to stabilize the economy but subject to the constraint that they had to maintain convertibility with gold but those central banks' role has changed a lot.

直至改变,我之前提到,我们过去是以金本位为基础的,并且中央银行也是以金本位为基础的机构,它们试图稳固经济,但是也在,保持金子的转换功能约束下。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The study was based on earlier evidence that turmeric has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory qualities.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The treatises that he had written in favor of the right to divorce for reasons of incompatibility in the earlier 1640s had scandalized his contemporaries and had especially scandalized his Puritan contemporaries on the left.

这些他在17世纪40年代早期所写的因为不能,相互容忍而离婚的权力,让当代人感到厌恶和反感,尤其让当代清教徒的左派反感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Earlier this month, officials rededicated the park at a ceremony held on that same spot.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

And I'm very interested in what happened in the French suburbs two years ago; in fact, I wrote an instant article on it for an encyclopedia because some of the work I'd earlier done was about why French suburbs and European suburbs are different than American suburbs.

我对两年前,在法国郊区的事很感兴趣,其实我当时就给一个百科全书,写了一篇文章,因为我以前研究过,为什么法国和欧洲的郊区,与美国郊区有这么大的差别

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The government plans to invest thirty billion dollars, on top of an earlier twenty billion.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

So Levenson, who draws actually on long-standing work by other scholars, and earlier in the twentieth century even , Levenson finds several of the main elements of the Hittite suzerainty treaties in this speech.

所以Levenson凭借其他学者，甚至是二十世纪初的学者的作品，发现了在这段演说中,有几个存在在Hittite领主条约的主要元素。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A week earlier, the International Labor Organization released its third Global Report on Child Labor.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Earlier this summer I was at a smelter in Japan, the largest titanium smelter on the planet.

早在这个夏天我去了日本一家熔炼厂，那是全世界最大的熔炼厂。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Faith Lapidus has our story. Earlier this month, the White House Council on Women and Girls released a historic report on the condition of women in America.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

She was an adviser on this study and the earlier one.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Those measurements were observed in earlier studies on the same individuals.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The southern states had finally acted on their earlier threats.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Earlier,we discussed the work "Variations on H."

VOA: special.2009.11.04