Before time began, there was the Cube.

在时间创生之前，就有了立方体。

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Before time began. There was the cube.

在时间产生之前，有一块立方体。

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Before time began. There was the cube.

在时间开始之前，“魔方”就已经存在。

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Now we know that Milton was blind probably well before the time he began writing Paradise Lost, and therefore, of course, he was then unable to read.

现在我们知道弥尔顿很可能失明了,这早于他开始写《失乐园》的时间，因此，他不能通过眼睛阅读。

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She started hunting down work before she graduated, and then devoted three months to looking full-time before she began to do some temporary work as a receptionist.

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Neuberger's Mr. Kantor says it is only a matter of time before investors began to pile into stocks.

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"Dark and Deadpan" chronicles the transition, that cusp of time just before TV began to rule all media.

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