You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

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And I was here before actually, like six years ago or something,

其实我以前来过，大概六年前吧，

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As before, as in the Downs or Hoteling model, we discussed already a few weeks ago, we're going to assume that voters are evenly spread along the line.

像之前一样,就像当斯或霍特林模型,我们几周前讨论的,我们将假设选民,平均分布在这条线上

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In fact, I dug up this from a few years ago it was actually pretty fortuitous like the day before one of CS50s lectures the original iPhone was cracked.

实际上，我在几年前,发现了这个，这是相当意外的,就像在一个CS50演讲前一天,我的iPhone，坏掉了。

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So how many before five minutes ago had heard the name Goudsmit?

有多少人在五分钟之前听说过Goudsmit？

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He was on The Bachelor before like a couple of years ago.

两年前，他在这个节目上出现过。

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