"Clearly the pictures are disturbing," "but what I would also say to people is that as I think members of the committee have correctly pointed out, pictures are a snapshot,all right, and what we will not do and what I will not do is make assumptions prior to the completion of our investigation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

That's something prior. That's genesis. That's a cause, right?

那是优先存在的，是起源，是原因，对吗？

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God has a bigger property right in us, a prior property right.

上帝更有权拥有我们，是种至高无上的权利。

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All right, so the prior parts get recycled.

所以先前的部分得以循环。

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