After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 foreign investors rushed to snap up former state-owned and collective farms.
1991年前苏联解体后，投资者们争先恐后地攫取该国原先国有和集体所有的农场。
Up to 2,000 former employees have filed personal injury suits against the company.
多达2千名前雇员已对该公司提起了个人伤害诉讼。
He had to choose between giving up his job and giving up his principles. He chose the former.
他得在放弃工作和放弃原则二者中择其一。他选择了前者。
Some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.
有些文化太善于排队了：前苏联的一个公民会加入队列，只是为了他能排在队伍的前头，看看每个人是为了什么而排队。
Gadaffi picked up victims at his former alma mater, Tripoli University, where he gave lectures and then led the young women to a nearby room .
卡扎菲在他的前母校的黎波里大学接走了一些受害者，在那里他做了演讲，然后把这些年轻妇女带到附近的一个房间。
George Burt, the former manager of the West Coast Beet Seed Co. in Salem, helped set up this system before he retired.
俄勒冈州塞勒姆的西海岸甜菜种子公司的前经理伯特在退休前帮助建立了这个系统。
Many years ago, Bonnier, a Swedish publisher, set up a newspaper in the former Soviet countries.
许多年前，瑞典出版商邦尼集团在前苏联国家创办了一份报纸。
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O' Connor is in her 70s and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs an Internet start-up in his 80s.
最高法院法官Sandra DayO'Connor已经70多岁，前卫生局局长C. EverettKoop在80多岁时还担任一个新成立的互联网公司的主席。
TIME's Alex Perry caught up with the former Miss World on the set of Bride and Prejudice.
《时代》杂志的AlexPerry在拍摄《新娘与偏见》时采访了这位前世界小姐。
"I can't speak now, I'm working," he would say — even to his father, according to one former colleague — before hanging up.
一位他以前的同事说他在挂上电话之前会说“我现在不能讲话，我在工作，”——即使对他父亲也是如此。
Your mission on earth was to make up for these former lives, to bring back love and justice to humanity.
你们在地球上的任务就是为以前的这些生世做补偿，给人类带回爱和正义。
As Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, has argued, Russia has left the West and is trying to build up its influence in the former Soviet space.
如卡耐基莫斯科中心的主任德米特里·特列宁所说，俄罗斯已经离开西方，并试图在前苏联领地建立起它的影响。
In their statement, the Guardian's international partners lined up to slam the 40-year-old former computer hacker.
在他们的陈述里，卫报的国际搭档狠狠地抨击这个40岁的前电脑黑客。
Peter Clarke, a former deputy assistant commissioner, backed him up, but MPs were unsympathetic. Mr Yates is under pressure to quit.
前副助理警监皮特•克拉克支持他的说法，但国会议员对此并不认同，叶芝先生面临辞职的压力。
Mrs Lowden is up against Danny Tarkanian, a former basketball star who is getting a lot of backing from Nevada’s “tea-party” conservatives.
将面对前篮球明星丹尼•塔坎尼，他已经从保守党人“茶话会”上得到了许多支持。
The former Porto man, linking up with Luiz Felipe Scolari, mentioned to the Press Association that the Blues had to be highly-regarded.
前波尔图队员，同斯科拉里在一块，向媒体协会说起蓝军应该被高度重视。
The former is made up entirely of Numbers, while the latter is a mix of letters and Numbers (among other differences).
前者完全由数字组成，而后者混合使用字母和数字(当然还有其他区别)。
Then they began turning up in the former Yugoslavia, Germany and the United States.
接着在前南斯拉夫，德国和美国繁殖。
South Africa and the U.S. have yet to report their April Numbers but year-end forecasts say the former could see up to 15% inflation, the latter could see up to 6% inflation.
南非和美国尚未提交四月份的报告数字，但年终预测说，前者可以预见15%的通胀率，后者可以预见6%的通胀。
The former Honda team, up for sale, is the only squad with no drivers confirmed.
前本田车- - -待出售的- - -是唯一一支没有确定车手的车队。
At the time David Walt, a chemist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, teamed up with his former adviser George Whitesides, a chemist at Harvard University.
当时来自麻省麦迪·福图·福斯特大学的化学家大卫·沃尔特和他的前顾问，来自哈佛大学的化学家乔治白边一起组队，他们一起提出了一个向引信中加入一系列金属盐的想法。
General Nyamwasa seems to have teamed up with a former head of Rwanda's overseas intelligence service, Colonel Patrick Karegaya, who has also fled to South Africa.
Nyamwasa将军似乎和前卢旺达海外情报部门的领导人ColonelPatrickKaregaya结成同盟，此人也逃亡到了南非。
Over the years, he dressed up as Sen. John McCain, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Sen. Pat Roberts, his Senate office said.
这些年来，被他cos的人有：参议员麦凯恩、前国务卿鲍威尔、参议员罗伯茨。
Not possible? At least be sure to keep up with industry trends as well as former colleagues.
不可能吗？至少要保证跟上行业的发展趋势和以前的同事。
After placing several calls to one former colleague, I had nearly given up on interviewing him.
在给过去的一个同事拨打了几个电话之后，我几乎放弃了采访他的打算。
The site requires users to provide their real names and e-mail addresses for registration, and it then links them up with current and former friends and colleagues with amazing ease.
该网站注册时要求用户提供其真实的姓名和电子邮件地址，然后它将会把注册者与其现在以及过去的朋友和同事链接起来，其方便程度使人惊叹。
This year, you could have picked up the former tech star for less than a cup of coffee.
今年，你本可以用不到一杯咖啡的价格买到这只曾经的科技明星股。
He said his former boss has no intention of giving up the helm, and that the plan will keep Lehman in business.
他成他的前任老板目前并不打算放弃这首战舰，他的计划将使雷曼傲立于商界。
He said his former boss has no intention of giving up the helm, and that the plan will keep Lehman in business.
他成他的前任老板目前并不打算放弃这首战舰，他的计划将使雷曼傲立于商界。
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