The visits by U.S.officials have been preceded by clashes over the last few weeks between Israeli police and Palestinians, as well as deepening divisions among Palestinian factions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

There is a return to these kinds of theoretical defences of absolutism that even preceded the growth of the absolute state as I've described it.

有一点需注意,对于绝对主义的理论辩护,甚至早于绝对主义国家的兴起,之前我已经描述过这个过程

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

There is a kind of manifest and knowing confusion of the two in literature-- and Freud always says that the poets preceded him in everything that he thought--which suggests that it is rather hard to keep these things separate.

文学中二者并没有明确区分-,他想来想去也找不到论据,这就证明,的确很难区分它们。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Large scale cyber assaults against Chechnya and Georgia preceded Russia's military actions there.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

When I'm talking about language I'm meaning systems like English and Dutch and Warlpiri and Italian and Turkish and Urdu and what we've seen and heard right now in class in the demonstration that preceded the formal lecture.

当我谈到语言时,我指的是诸如英语,荷兰语,沃皮利语,意大利语,土耳其语,乌尔都语这样的语言系统,以及我们在正式上课之前的课堂演示中,所看到和听到的语言系统

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Mitchell's scheduled visit to Damascus was preceded by two trips there since March by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and White House National Security Council Middle East expert Daniel Shapiro.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Louis XIV was preceded in number by Louis XIII.

路易十四之前的统治者是路易十三

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