You do not understand the story, the background, what happened before, and what happens next.

你不了解这个故事、其背景、之前发生了什么以及接下来会发生什么。

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He had already made up his mind before even hearing her side of the story.

他甚至在听到她那一方的说法之前就已下定决心了。

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He had to rush back to the office and file a housing story before the secretaries went home.

他不得不赶回办公室，在秘书们回家之前提交一份有关住房的报道。

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Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

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So there is this sense in which the story of a developing writer is the story of someone learning even before they learn how to control language fully that language has these capacities.

书要讲给我们的,其实就是有关理查学习的过程,告诉我们语言在还无法很好被控制的时候,就已经有能力改变理查的生活。

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I knew the storyline before I went, but when the lights went down, and then the story came out.

我去看之前就知道故事情节了，但当灯光暗下来，演出开始，

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But I guess you had already made up your mind long before the story was considered.

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Before the story surfaced, Reyes had moved to play down reports linking him with the Spanish giants, issuing a statement through Arsenal describing the speculation as "flattering".

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Miller called the planted question a "bad idea" intended to create an initial IRS apology by Lerner before the story broke with the release of the inspector general's report.

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