The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Now I don't know how impressed you are, the year before that it was 22% in one year.

我不知道给你们是否被震撼到了,前年的收益率是22%

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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，

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If possible, in the year before you plant potatoes, plant a cover crop to improve the soil and the potato production.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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The Council of Graduate Schools says this followed an increase of six percent last year and nine percent the year before that.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

This is January of this year, before the Fed cut interest rates, and this is the term structure.

这是今年一月,联储局降息前的期限结构图

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The latest reports show that German exports in November were down almost 12% from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The trial of Socrates takes place in the year 399 and all of these refer to before the common era 399.

苏格拉底的审判,发生在公元前399年，这些,全都指向共同年代─399年之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The year before,he first played with the United States National Team in a victory over Costa Rica.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to pluck your Berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

我再一次来，月桂树啊,棕色的番石榴和常青藤的绿叶啊，在成熟之前，来强摘你们的果子，我不得已伸出我这粗鲁的手指，来震落你们这些嫩黄的叶子。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

在宗教研究中我们喜欢用这两个术语，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因为AD其实是Anno，Domini的缩写，即“主的年份“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But the number is down sharply from two thousand seven, the year before the financial crash.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

because it's a... They're digging it all up before the Olympics next year.

因为它是……在明年奥运会之前人们要翻修它。

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That was eight percent higher than the year before, the largest percentage increase since nineteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

They stay at Sinai for a year, I believe, in the text, before they begin their movement, and Numbers contains some law, and much narrative material.

他们在西奈呆了一年，我认为，文中这么写，在他们开始迁移之前，《民数记》中有很多法规和叙述材料。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They had met her at a shelter at a railway station the year before.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

To my surprise, nobody had before created a hundred-year long home price index, which seems surprising to me because the long history of home prices seems like a relevant fact; we want to know what markets do.

让我惊讶的是,此前居然没有人建立百年房屋价格指数,这点让我很惊讶,因为长期的历史房屋价格,看起来似乎是有关联的,我们很想知道市场的动向

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But foreign and Afghan troops killed more civilians last year than the year before.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He had published the "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" the year before.

VOA: special.2011.05.01

The year before,southern troops sent a northern army fleeing from Bull Run.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

That was a decrease of ten percent from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The number was 7% higher than the year before.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

That was nine percent more than the year before.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

She had killed herself the year before.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

It is time now for Barack Obama!" Kennedy was elected to the Senate in 1962, the year before the assassination of President Kennedy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

"I want to study English harder and better than the year before and I hope the work and business is better than before.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08