Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Every day at midnight God destroys the old soul and replaces it with a new soul that has the very same personality as the one before midnight, similar personality,same beliefs,desires,and so forth and so on.

每天午夜上帝都毁掉旧的灵魂,用一个与午夜前相同人格的灵魂代替，相同的人格，相同的信仰和欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

kind of one of those things that happens right before you at the end of the year,

在年底毕业之前，这样的过程也会发生，

实习生到正式员工 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

NASA warned the three astronauts inside about one hour before the object was to reach the area of the station.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

One. And so I put 1 into this box so that's the correction I needed to make from before.

，因此我把1放在这个盒子里,那么这里我需要做的改动。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Many of the matches were fixed. The wrestlers knew before the match which one of them would be the winner.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

Rather, he claims that he wants to hear justice defended the way that no one has ever defended it before.

相对地，他声称,他想要听到正义自卫的方式,是没有人曾提出的捍卫方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

And that set of things is identified by the sequence of commands that are indented in, this one right here, following the colon but before I get back to the same place in terms of the indentation.

这个集合就是,后面缩进的一系列命令，就是这一块，在冒号后面,但是要,通过缩进。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

One-third of every steamboat built in the United States before 1850 exploded and destroyed became a wreck.

850年以前,美国制造的每三艘蒸汽船,就有一艘爆炸或毁坏,彻底地报销

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark.Then I'll go,too."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But there's one more step they have to take before they're integrated back into the community.

但是在重新融入社会之前,还有一个步骤。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said that never before had he spoken to a group as troubled and worried as the one he spoke to now.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

But this case should remind you of something, because this case is one that we've actually discussed before "Methuselah" under the label of "Methuselah."

但这个例子应该让你们想起一件事，因为以前我们曾探讨过这个例子,援引的例子是“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One hour before landing, Lovell,Swigert and Haise said thanks and goodbye to their lifeboat, the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Now you do have an opportunity-- this class does- that my class has never had before, and that is to nominate your own novel for the last one that we read, one of your choice.

现在你真的有了个机会-,在我的课上有了个机会-,去推荐一本小说作为我们的最后一本读物,你们自己的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was a little before one o'clock in the afternoon when Paul arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

On the one hand, he wants to wait before he talks.

一方面，他想在他说话之前先等一等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That was where the Union army had lost a battle to the Confederates one year before.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

And this is one of the questions which I'm going to deal with in the next couple of lectures but before I get to the theory of social psychology I want to talk about an individual difference.

而这其中一个问题就是,我会在这两节课里讲的,但首先我们来了解社会心理学的理论,我想讲一个个体差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the East, one storm dropped lots of snow on communities from North Carolina to the New England states on the weekend before Christmas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

As I mentioned before is one example on the risk for breast cancer in women, so you'd randomly assign half to following their usual diet, the other half to an intervention program where people are prescribed a low fact diet, given counseling and interventions from dieticians and things, and then you look to see what happens for risk as people go forward in time.

我之前提过,这例子研究的是,女性的乳腺癌发病率,你将随机选择其中一半人按一般习惯饮食,另一半人则参与一个干预计划,其中每人都要食用,由营养学家设计推荐的低脂肪菜单,然后再看随着时间推移,被试者的发病率是怎样变化的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There's never been one here before.' " Three years later Anne Lindbergh wrote "Listen! The Wind."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The Hepatitis B vaccine I talked about before produced by recombinant DNA technologies, called Recombivax HB, that's one version of it.

我曾经提到过的通过DNA重组技术,制造的乙型肝炎疫苗,被称作重组乙型肝炎疫苗,那是该疫苗的型号之一

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But more than one hundred years passed before the current, widely used seat belt was developed.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

And by state we just mean orbital, so if we're looking at the p orbitals here, x that means that a single electron goes in x, and then it will go in the z orbital before a second one goes in the x orbital.

我们说的态仅仅意味着轨道，所以如果我们观察这里的p轨道，那意味着单个电子进入，然后它会进入z轨道,在它第二个进入x之前。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

One was built by the hands of many men before there was industrial building equipment.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

General Electric ironically was started right after the Great Deleveraging of 1873 that was the bubble before the depression that was just like this one.

通用电气则恰好是在1873年,对冲基金拆仓后产生的,而那正是萧条来临前的泡沫时期。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

All right. Now in any case, while we're on the subject of deconstruction in general and before we get into de Man, let me just say that there is one other way, if I may, not to criticize deconstruction.

好的，无论如何，既然我们正说到解构这个话题,在我们谈德曼之前，我想说,如果我可以的话，还有另一种方法来看待，不用批判解构主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选