以前他们往往携带介绍信来这里。
以前他们是用粘土、木头或是金属等材料手工制作的。
They are traditionally crafted by hand from materials such as clay, wood or metal.
以前他们也收到过Paula的手机短信说她处境危险。
In the past, family members said, they have received text messages from her indicating that she was in danger.
但是有一点值得注意：许多人可以做一些以前他们做不了的事情。
But the point that many people now can do something they weren't able to do before.
以前他们是被内在的动机驱使的，而现在他们却被外在的动机驱动。
What they had been motivated to do intrinsically, they were now being given an external, extrinsic motivation for.
以前他们一直依赖于从更多的电脑中向外发出更多的电邮，因为他们知道有些一定会成功的。
They long relied on sending more e-mails from more computers, knowing that some will get through.
机构投资者的要求越来越低，以前他们的要求总是让人畏缩，现在他们只要求得到单位数的回报。
Increasingly, institutional investors demand only single-digit returns, far less daunting than in the past.
狗儿叫了叫，说：我跟你讲啊，以前他们都叫我小可爱，让我睡在主人卧室里的天鹅绒座垫上，坐在女主人的膝头上。
barked the yard-dog, I'll tell you, they said I was a pretty little fellow once, then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap.
银行监管机构认为，联邦法律中设定的“系统性风险”条件赋予了他们取消保险上限的权限，虽然以前他们从没这么做过。
Bank regulators believe the 'systemic risk' clause in federal law gives them the authority to lift insurance limits, though it has never been used to do so before.
我目前工作的地方是世界上最大的医疗中心。每天看到的就是救护车拉来的人，五分钟以前他们自己也没有预料到会这样。
"I work in the world's largest medical center, and what you see here every day is people showing up in ambulances who didn't expect that just five minutes earlier," he said.
即使他们十分幸运的弄到一个完整的化石，如果它和以前他们所有见过的东西都不像，他们也没法对这个动物的行为了解更多。
Even if they are lucky enough to have a complete fossil, they may be unable to say much about how the animal behaved if it looks unlike anything they have seen before.
感谢南非芭蕾剧院的拓展计划，如今在约翰内斯堡亚历山德拉镇，黑人孩子每周能上三次芭蕾课，而以前他们难得看到芭蕾舞。
Once a rarity for black children, ballet classes are now a treat three times a week in Johannesburg's Alexandra township, thanks to an outreach program of the South African ballet Theatre.
车里雅宾斯克管辖的区域中有个小村庄叫做巴黎。当地人nagaybaki是一个矮小的族群，1917年以前他们属于哥萨克人的一支。
In the Chelyabinsk region there is a village named Paris; nagaybaki live here - a small people that belonged to Cossacks before 1917.
我指出并不是很多人真正到达办公室的时间是早上8：00以前；因此，早上8：00以前他们看见这封紧急邮件通知是不太可能的。
I pointed out that not many people actually arrive at the office by 8:00 a.m.; therefore, it would be unlikely that they have seen the "urgent" email announcement by 8:00.
所以谁能告诉我，Adobe/Zend介绍并实现的到底是个什么全新的东西，突然能让所有的PHP开发者完成以前他们无法做到的事情？
So please help me understand what it is that Adobe/ Zend actually introduced and did that is so new that all of a sudden PHP developers can start doing that they could not before?
以前他们根本无法全家一起出门，因为Marissa总是发脾气。 他们也不能带Marissa进商店，因为她总是想要什么就拿什么，不给就尖叫不止，直到得到她要的东西。
The family couldn't go out in public because of Marissa's tantrums, and they couldn't take her into stores because she'd shoplift what she wanted, or just scream until she got it.
他们以前常常脱光衣服在小河里游泳。
They used to take off their clothes and go skinny dipping in the creek.
我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。
Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.
你知道以前的老渡口吗？他们以前在那儿建桥。
You know the place where the old ford used to be, in by-gone days before they built the bridge?
他们以前不同意我走。
这种想法是错误的，因为当尘埃落定时，人们还会是他们以前的样子。
That kind of thinking is a mistake, because when the dust settles, people are going to be pretty much what they are.
他们有猪的头、声音、鬃毛和身体，但他们的思想还是和以前一样，所以他们被关在那里哭泣。
They had the head and voice and bristles and body of swine but their minds remained unchanged as before, so they were penned there weeping.
母语使用者可以分辨符合语法规则和不符合语法规则的句子，即使他们以前从没有听过这些特定的词语组合。
Native speakers can distinguish between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences even when they have never heard particular combinations before.
有些人在退休后感到孤独，因为他们以前工作中的熟人可能都不再联系了。
Some people feel lonely after they retire from their posts because their previous work contacts may be all gone.
他对他们礼物的感激之情，以前总是刺痛他们的良心——这次比以往任何时候都要深。
His gratitude for their gifts had always smote their consciences before—it cut deeper than ever, this time.
离开以前，他们拥抱了所有留下的人。
甚至更早以前，他们可能坐在书桌旁长篇大论叙写情感信。
Even longer ago, they probably sat at their desks writing out long, emotional letters.
一年半以前，他们几经周折终于买下了这个公寓，对它进行了彻头彻尾的改造把它变成了自己的家。
They purchased the apartment a year and a half ago after an exhaustive search, opting for a gut-renovation to make it their own.
律师和公司计划着确保在其它分享这块大蛋糕以前，他们的影星已从电影收入分得一杯羹。
Lawyers and agents scheme to ensure that their stars take a cut of a film's proceeds before anybody else gets to the pie.
PV：不久以前，他们认为他们可能最终将会取消他们的分支办公室，客户将对通过AT M类的系统与他们互动和呼叫中心感到满意。
PV: Not that long ago, they felt maybe they could eventually eliminate their branch offices, and customers would be content to interact with them through ATM-type systems and call centers.
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