"We'll go into a restaurant for instance and previously it was, 'Where can I sit with my back to a wall?

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Previously to this most recent discussion, I talked about the value of life.

在这个最近的讨论之前，我谈到了生命的价值。

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You use this pattern whenever you want to express that you have experienced something in the past previously.

每当你想表达你之前已经经历过某事的时候，你就可以用这个句型。

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The discovery raised the level of concern that the invasive species was closer to Lake Michigan than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Previously humans were to be vegetarian: Genesis 1, the portrait was one in which humans and animals did not compete for food, or consume one another.

在《创世纪》1中，早期的人类是素食主义者，描绘了一幅人类和动物,不用争夺食物，不用互相残杀的景象。

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The United States had previously expressed dismay over the government's decision to hold the elections without an actual voter list.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

I have no idea what's here at the moment so I'm just going to draw a question mark because that memory might have been used previously for some other purpose, but we know it's currently available to us so we have four bytes of memory.

我不知道在此刻这里是什么,所以我画一个问号，因为那块内存可能在之前,为其它的目的而使用过，但是我们知道它可以为我们所使用,这样我们就有4个字节的内存。

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"Now,I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

So, for example, to give an example that Plato actually gives in the dialogue, we are all awake now, but previously we were asleep.

举例来说吧,柏拉图在对话中举过这么个例子,我们现在都清醒着,但之前我们都在熟睡

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U.S.Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry has previously expressed his reservations regarding corruption in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

And all of a sudden, I moved from being a professor here, which previously had been my greatest opportunity, to leading this very large non-for-profit organization that had both national and international responsibilities.

所以突然间，我从普林斯顿的教授，这曾经是我最大的机遇，变成了这个公益组织的领导者,负有国内和国际的双重责任。

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The former Destiny's Child singer is no stranger to the Grammy Awards, having previously won seven.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Any time you can reduce something to a previously solved problem, that's good.

这是件好事，这个是我们要学习的,重要内容，人们往往不会首先。

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Previously,however, they tended to protest against what they saw as an infringement on their socio-economic rights.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

So here what we did before was we drew these graphs with probabilities, with beliefs of Player I and the problem here is, previously we had a nice simple graph to draw because there were just two strategies for Player II.

我们之前画了有关概率的图像,图像是在参与人的某个信念下的,但问题是之前参与人II只有两个策略,所以我们能画出那个简单的图像

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President Nasheed has previously announced plans to buy a new homeland for his country's 350,000 citizens if the Maldives does eventually disappear below the waves.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

I can certainly try to write the number 13 there, but bam, my program very likely will crash if this chunk of memory was not given to me previously by the operating system and maybe it is owned by the operating system.

我当然可以在那里写下数字13，但是“嘣“,如果这块内存不是系统预先给我的,我的程序很可能会崩溃,可能这块内存,是系统本身使用的。

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Four other men, accused of being part of the same conspiracy, had previously pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to up to 14 years in prison.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

After all, even if you believe in a soul, as I have remarked previously, that doesn't give us yet any reason to believe the soul continues to exist after the death of your body.

毕竟,就像我之前说过的,即使灵魂是存在的,那也不能说明,灵魂在肉体死后,仍然能继续存在下去

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Iran says its uranium-enrichment program is designed only for electricity generating purposes, and has allowed U.N.inspectors to visit a previously secret processing facility near the city of Qom.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

And the same way that I indicated previously that although I like chocolate-- I love chocolate--the prospect of having to eat more and more and more and more and more chocolate, eventually the idea becomes a sickening one.

同样适用于我之前的说明,虽然我喜欢巧克力-,我钟爱巧克力，但一想到要吃,更多更多更多的巧克力，最终这个念头变得让人反胃。

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Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Secretary Gates said the U.S.intelligence community believes that Iran has been slower to develop its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

You're not going to alter how much pleasur you enjoyed previously, how much suffering you've undergone previously.

你无法改变,从前得到的多少快乐，从前遭受多少痛苦。

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Computer programmers already have created thousands of applications for the iPad that will allow customers to perform many other tasks previously done on regular laptops or on mobile phones.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

But because we're now programming a computer at a lower level and because as we said last week, you really have to be precise and then careful to instruct this machine, this fairly dumb machine that will only do what you tell it to do very specific instructions, do we have to use a more precise syntax than just a puzzle piece might have previously allowed.

但是我们是要在电脑的低平台上编程不是吗？,那我们就要像我上周提到过的那样，一定要小心，小心，再小心地,操纵这台又聋又哑的机器,它只会根据你敲进去的,特定指令来做事，所以我们必须使用非常精细的语法,而不是模模糊糊，让人费解的概念。

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The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion, increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

And let's just suppose the correct theory of personal identity is Van Inwagen such as to put aside any worries we might have along with van Inwagen, that we discussed previously, as to whether or not on resurrection day that would really be you or not. Suppose it would be you.

假设正确的个人认同感理论是这样的,例如将之前讨论,理论时的种种担忧放在一边，也就是审判日当天,到底是不是真的你，我们假设就是你。

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So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

But of course, as we know and thinking about familiar objects, we don't need to have every single piece of an object, of an identity stay the same to have the same feeling.So-- I think previously I talked about the steering wheel on my car.

但很明显的,根据我们的常识，我们不需要要求,所有的物体，都保持不变,从而得到同一个肉体-,我记得我之前讨论过,我的汽车的方向盘。

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