But no one ever did before text messaging really started taking off.

但是在短信息真正开始使用前从来没有人这样做过。

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Before Mosaic, the web had been used mainly by scientists and other technical people, who were happy just to send and receive text.

在 Mosaic 出现之前，使用万维网的主要是科学家和其他技术人员，他们只是发送和接收文本就很开心了。

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We examine the wording in detail before deciding on the final text.

我们详细检查了措辞，才确定了最终文本。

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They stay at Sinai for a year, I believe, in the text, before they begin their movement, and Numbers contains some law, and much narrative material.

他们在西奈呆了一年，我认为，文中这么写，在他们开始迁移之前，《民数记》中有很多法规和叙述材料。

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And these are words that are very meaningful when you read the text of a problem or of a process Any questions before we got to the zeroth law?

这些词汇会非常有意义,在我们进入第零定律前,有没有什么问题,我们差不多已经，讲完了？

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The reader projects before himself a meaning for the text as a whole as soon as some initial meaning emerges in the text.

一旦文本开始构成意义读者,就会对整个文本,做出自己的解读。

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If Congress approves its text before Christmas, the referendum will probably be held in March.

ECONOMIST: And very little time before Congress adjourns

However, the draft conclusions are likely to change substantially before a final text is adopted at the end of the summit.

BBC: Eurozone crisis: Late night summit talks to save euro

Maybe this has already happened to you, or maybe I have the dubious distinction of getting spam text before it is commonplace.

FORBES: And so it begins: Spam Texting