"The Kremlin are very aware of the risk that this might theoretically evolve as something bigger so they try to pre-empt, try to prevent, such kind of undesired evolution before it begins to happen."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

So somewhere, maybe in pre-incarnational time before Franny became Franny, she wanted to be an actress.

可能是在神灵化身之前的时代,在弗兰尼变成弗兰尼之前，她想要成为演员。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, it apparently is not so obvious because in the Americas, before Columbus came-- " pre-Columbian America-- there were no wheeled vehicles anywhere.

好吧，从表面上看这似乎不那么显而易见,因为在美洲大陆，在哥伦布到来之前-,在“前哥伦比亚美洲-,根本没有任何轮式交通工具存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And obviously before we done the work with UNyx, we took a pre-NBA package, preparation package from the list of available titles, if you will, and made it available to our incoming NBA students.

在和UNyx进行合作前,我们根据前NBA学生的，头衔名单,取出他们的文件，并将其提供给,即将到来的NBA学生。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选