So if you're coming from prior background, your code might work a little differently on a different system if you don't use those flags.

如果你来自一个先前的背景，如果你们没有使用这个版本标志的话，在一个不同的系统中,你的代码可能运行地不太一样。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So one of the reasons there is a huge increase in life span is because people aren't dying of things that they would have in prior years.

寿命范围显著增长的一个原因是,人们不再死于,以前那些致死的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The strategic goals are the following: course six we want to help prepare freshmen and sophomores who are interested in majoring in course six to get an easy entry into the department, especially for those students who don't have a lot of prior programming experience.

以下是关键的目标：,我们希望帮助对于通过主修,从而进入本系这条捷径,非常感兴趣的大一大二生，尤其是那些,以前没有编程经验的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We don't have any particular reason to think my heart's one of the prior-existing pieces; we don't have any good reason to assume that my soul's one of the prior-existing pieces.

我们没有什么理由,去相信我的心脏是之前就存在的,我们没有理由说,我的灵魂之前就是存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It won't have any memories of its prior life.

不会有前世的记忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选