"We shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago," cried the loaves as before.

“我们将被烧成灰烬；我们早就烤得熟透了。”面包像以前一样叫道。

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It was about 5000 years ago, even before the first Egyptian pyramid that some amazing Neolithic monuments—tombs, were erected at various sites around Ireland, Great Britain and coastal islands nearby.

大约5000年前，甚至在第一个埃及金字塔建成之前，一些令人惊叹的新石器时代的遗迹——坟墓，就已经在爱尔兰、英国和附近的沿海岛屿的不同地方搭建起来了。

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Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000 (7.9 percent) from its year-ago level.

非自愿兼职的员工人数仍远高于经济衰退前的人数，但较上年同期减少了64万人，下降了7.9%。

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just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

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You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

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And I was here before actually, like six years ago or something,

其实我以前来过，大概六年前吧，

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The team found that cave bears went into decline 50, 000 years ago, before finally going extinct 24, 000 years ago.

BBC: Early human 'squatters' drove cave bears to extinction

Then, bizarrely, it became clear from both genetics and archaeology that Europe was peopled later (after 40, 000 years ago) than Australia (before 50, 000 years ago).

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The Merck effort against ras was the subject of front-page stories years ago before it fizzled.

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