Before I had left the hotel, I took a cardof the hotel at the reception totally due to my vocationalhabit.
在离开旅馆前，我出于职业的习惯从前台拿了张旅馆的名片。
It had taken a long time, and I was glad to know that at least the problem would be resolved before I left.
这一问题已经花了太多时间，我很高兴地看到在我离任前得以解决。
I got lucky, Allegra McEvedy had used my kitchen for a shoot the week before and had left just the right quantity of beef bone marrow in the fridge.
我就很幸运了，AllegraMcEvedy为了拍摄曾在一个星期前使用过我的厨房，然后在冰箱里留下了一块上好的牛骨髓。
It was the day before Thanksgiving — the first one my three children and I would be spending without their father, who had left several months before.
那天是感恩节前一天- - - - - -也是第一次我和我的三个孩子没有在他们的父亲的陪伴下度过，他早在几个月前就走了。
I had never played before, but I came on and scored a perfect hat-trick: header, left foot, right foot.
我以前从没踢过球，但我上来后就踢出完美的帽子戏法：头球，左脚进球和右脚进球。
Four days later, just before I left again for Wye River, I named John Podesta to succeed Erskine, who had strongly recommended him for the job.
四天之后，就在我去怀依河会议中心之前，在厄斯金的强力推荐下，我提名约翰·波德斯塔接替他的职务。
I felt prepared, though, because I had done the small test the night before. Nothing was left to chance.
我感觉已经准备好了，因为我们昨晚已经进行了试拍，没有需要改变的地方了。
Linton, who had been conveyed up to the little parlour soon after I left, was terrified into fetching the key before his father re-ascended.
林惇在我走后就被搬到楼上小客厅里去，他被吓得趁他父亲还没有再上楼，就拿到了钥匙。
Before my interviewees entered or left my office, I had to call the receptionist to run traffic control to make sure that no one else saw them.
当我的接待对象进来和离开时，我会打电话给接线员俩控制人员进入以确保没人看见他们。
I had slung my handbag across the back of my chair and, when we stood up to leave, I found that the bag had left before me.
当我们起身准备离开时，我发现挂在椅背上的手袋已经不翼而飞。
Through the glass I could see the very bridge I had left just a few moments before.
透过窗玻璃，我可以看到了刚才经过的那座桥。
Hilarious, since I had been there half an hour before and there was hardly any breakfast left at all.
滑稽的是，我半小时前就下来了，而那个时候已经根本没有什么早餐剩下了。
"This was six months of my life which left me nowhere further along in my career than before," Footman says. "It was not a learning experience and that was what I had expected."
“我为此花费了人生中6个月的时间，却对我的事业没有任何推动，”福特曼说，“这并非我原先期望的学习机会。”
I am alone for the first time in my life, I had never left St Petersburg before.
这是我人生第一次孤身漂泊在外，我之前从未离开过圣彼得堡。
Two days ago I went to see him, but his neighbor said that he had left four days before.
两天前，我去拜访他，可他邻居说他在四天前就走了。
I had graduated from Harvard a few years before he left MIT, and we Shared a few mutual friends as well as a few minor interests: sports, late nights at college pubs, widescreen TVs.
他离开麻省理工学院之前，我已经从哈佛毕业几年了。我们不但有一些共同的朋友，也有一些共同的小爱好：体育，晚场泡酒吧的不归人，大屏幕电视前的常客。
As I wrapped up the masse-mail, I remembered something my friend Susan had said to me before I left on this world journey nine months ago.
在总结这封长信之际，我想起我的朋友苏珊九个月前在我展开这趟世界之旅前，对我说过的话。
I remembered I had put the pen into my bag before I left home in the morning.
我也清楚地记得我早上离开家的时候把钢笔放进书包里了。
Whenever I came home, Kristin would pick me up at the airport and our conversation would resume right where it had left off months before.
每次我回家，克丽丝汀都去机场接我，然后我们继续几个月前的话题。
I had nothing to do with her dismissal; then why did she give me an accusatory look before she left?
她被解职和我毫无关系，那她为什么离去以前用责备的眼光看了我一眼？
Although I had a BA and an MA in China, I never went to any graduation ceremony before I left.
虽然在中国我获得过学士和硕士学位，但我在出国之前从来没有参加过任何毕业典礼。
When I got there I was told that they had left only a few minutes before.
我到达那里时人家对我说他们就在几分钟前离开那里了。
Trainers kept telling me how many days were left before the Olympics, and how much time I had left for training.
不停有人跟我说，奥运会还有几天，我还剩多长时间训练。
When I went back to the school that I had left eight years before, everything was different.
当我回到阔别了八年的学校时，发现一切都变了。
As I have written before, though, at the time Ferrari had recently been through a bad period, and was being left behind by Red Bull and McLaren.
就像我之前说过的，当时法拉利处于低潮期，他们被红牛和迈凯轮抛开了。
I had heard of, and had seen a documentary on Lijiang before I left for China but I did not think I could get there because I was already covering such a large distance in a mere two weeks.
来中国之前，我曾经听说并读过一篇关于丽江的文章，但我没想到自己能够来这里，因为这一周我已经走了很远的距离。
EXAMPLE: I only had time to leaf through the recent report before I left my office, but it looked significant and I will study it more carefully tomorrow.
我下班后才有时间看看最近的报告，但它看来很重要，我明天会认真研究一下。
EXAMPLE: I only had time to leaf through the recent report before I left my office, but it looked significant and I will study it more carefully tomorrow.
我下班后才有时间看看最近的报告，但它看来很重要，我明天会认真研究一下。
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