Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

骄傲在败坏以先，狂心在跌倒之前。

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Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

自负的人走向毁灭，傲慢的灵魂必将堕落。

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Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

败坏之先，人心骄傲。尊荣以前，必有谦卑。

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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。

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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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And why the claim of the utter destruction of the Canaanites when evidence points to close Canaanite origins? This practice, which I mentioned before and is known as herem or the ban, is not unique to Israel. I know some of you have studied it in sections you looked at the inscription of King Mesha, King Mesha of Moab.

那为何要声称迦南彻底的毁灭呢？,当证据指出了迦南的起源，这一习俗，也就是我之前提到的禁忌或祭祀，并不是以色列独有的，我想你们也已经学过,你们看摩押米沙王的题词，摩押的米沙王。

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There in a one-room schoolhouse he had learned his lessons, in the days before the destruction of the public-school system.

ECONOMIST: Charlton Heston

It hasn't been deployed as a weapon for mass destruction before.

BBC: Poison find underlines terror threat

The relay team, nicknamed Weapons of Mass Destruction before the Olympics, came in fourth in the event, in which they had been expected to deliver a medal.

BBC: Australian Olympic swimmers admit using sedative