照这样下去，他们能在8：30或9：00前到家就很走运了。

At this rate they'd be lucky to get home before eight-thirty or nine.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

这三个音中前两个是很常见的，可以在 but 和 caught 这样的单词中碰到。

The first two of these are common English sounds found in words such as but and caught.

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十年前，这样的想法几乎是难以想象的。

Such an idea was scarcely thinkable ten years ago.

《牛津词典》

Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Oh, they are. And at the moment there is a bill that I think over the past couple of years has been presented to the legislator.

是的，现在,就有这样一个法案，在几年前,人们把它提交给了立法者。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Boy, there's a dumb question, because I've been telling you n log n for the last two lectures the complexity is n log n, but let's see if it really is.

孩子们，这是一个愚蠢的问题，因为前两节课的时候我就已经告诉你们了,复杂度是,但是让我们来看一下是不是真的是这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选