我在铃响前刚好有时间吃完，然后就去上第一节课了。
I had just enough time to finish eating before the bell rang and I was off to my first class.
对我来说,表演就是在麦克风前，通过无线电，传播给看不见的听众。
For me, a performance is in front of a microphone, over the radio, to an unseen audience.
几个星期前，我在沙滩上发现了另一个人的脚印。
A few weeks ago, I found the marks of another man's feet on the sand.
别担心，玛丽，我可以在机器开始工作前洗碗。
Don't worry, Mary, I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work.
我遇到许多徒步旅行者，他们正前往一个遥远的露营地，他们刚好可以在天黑前到达那里。
I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark.
我记得在一年前，Hawkeye 既有免费版本，也有更强大的付费版本。
I recall that about a year ago, Hawkeye was being released as both a free version and a more powerful paid version.
在中学毕业前两年，我上了一个缝纫和设计的课，以为自己会继续学习时装设计课程。
Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course.
不久前，我收到他的来信，在信里他告诉了我目前的进展。
I got a letter from him which informed me of his progress just a little while ago.
今天早上，我在登机前从机场给她打了电话。
I phoned her from the airport this morning just before I got on board the plane.
我在七年前到访德国时，遇到了一位官员，他向我解释说，德国有一个完美的办法来解决经济问题。
Seven years ago, when I was visiting Germany, I met with an official who explained to me that the country had a perfect solution to its economic problems.
出差几周前到这个国家旅游时，我在收音机上收听关于已故的英国作家道格拉斯·亚当斯的杰作《银河系漫游指南》的相关评论。
Traveling through the country a couple of weeks ago on business, I was listening to the talk of the late UK writer Douglas Adams' masterwork "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on the radio.
我将从我的前同事罗伯特·斯特恩伯格那里选择一个定义，他现在是塔夫茨大学的院长，但他在耶鲁大学任教近30年。
I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly thirty years.
当报道在人们中传递时，就被提炼、校对和分类，直到最终交到我的手上，在播出前我有机会把大多数报道通读一遍。
As stories go through the chain of people, they are refined, corrected and sorted out until they come finally to me and I have a chance to read through most stories before I go on the air.
美国发展的方式，或者我该说，美国殖民地发展的方式，因为现在的美国东部所在地在400年前正是英国殖民地。
The way the United States developed or perhaps I should say the colonies, since the land that would become the Eastern United States, there were British colonies there four hundred years ago.
我认为在公元前2000年之前的世界上最重要的城市是伊拉克的乌尔。
My vote for the most important cities in the world in the period leading up to 2000 B.C. would be Ur, Iraq.
我认为在公元前2000年之前的世界上最重要的城市是伊拉克的乌尔。
My vote for the most important cities in the world in the period leading up to 2000 B.C. would be Ur, Iraq.
我在该日期几天前写一个提醒，以防万一。
我认为应该告诉他在开始前要三思。
妈妈在电话里告诉我，她一个星期前给我写过信，但我什么也没收到。
Mother told me in a phone call that she had written to me a week before, but I haven't received anything.
三年前，当我开始在希尔克雷斯特高中工作时，我被介绍给了该校的校长沙伦·邓恩。
When I began working at Hillcrest High School three years ago, I was introduced to Sharon Dunn, the school's headmistress.
我在电脑前度过了余下的一夜，当然，我仍然在笑。
I spent the rest of the night in front of my computer, of course, still laughing.
最近我在你们公司买了一把办公椅，但是我在大约一个星期前把它退了。
I recently bought an office chair from your company, but I returned it about a week ago.
在付款前，我被要求在销售点电子转账终端系统上对我的“店铺购物体验”进行评分。
I've been asked to rate my "store experience" on the EFTPOS terminal before I can pay.
在我们学校英语节的前一周，我的老师让我在全校师生面前做一个演讲。
A week before my school's English festival, my teacher asked me to make a speech in front of the whole school.
布鲁斯·斯蒂芬这个名字就是为了纪念我的外祖父，本杰明·塞缪尔· 阿巴斯豪斯，他在我出生的三年前就过世了。
Bruce Stephen honored my maternal grandfather, Benjamin Samuel Abeshouse, who had died three years before my birth.
在我第一次参加马拉松比赛的前一个月，我的一只脚踝受伤了，这意味着两个星期不能跑步，只剩两个星期的训练时间。
A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.
我马上想到了许多名字：我们当地书店的老板，他在开店前让我和我的小儿子进去，并主动播放他最喜欢的歌曲；我们的保姆，她会放下一袋旧的棋盘游戏给我们的孩子玩；……
I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs; our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play; ...
几天前我在附近的一家商店买的。
妈妈告诉我在考试结束前要仔细检查试卷。
Mother told me to go through the papers carefully before the exam was over.
所以就在考试前，我在书桌上用铅笔从课本上抄了几条笔记。
So just before the test, I had written several notes from the textbook on my desk in pencil.
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