Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

每个人都想知道，即将入住这些空办公室隔间的人将与之前的人有什么不同。

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After a man made the distinctive groan and tumbled out of his chair, a doctor explained the garbled noise that always came before the fall.

一名男子发出了独特的呻吟声，从椅子上摔了下来，后来一名医生解释说，人晕倒前总是发出这种含混不清的的声音。

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Those hanging from every wall, or upon stands in the ground, are the works of those who came before them and reached the apex of their profession.

那些挂在每面墙上，或立在地面上的，是那些在她之前来，达到了艺术顶峰的前辈们的作品。

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More than seven months after the election, Norm Coleman came before reporters at his home in St.Paul,Minnesota to concede defeat.

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But very nicely, is quite elegent structure this point, Socrates puts toghther the two arguments that we just been rehearsing, the argument from recollection and the argument that came before that, the one that I dubbed the argument from recycling.

但是这一观点的结构非常精妙,苏格拉底把我们刚才演练的,两个论证放在一块，即源于记忆的论证,和在此之前的论证，就是被我称作源于轮回的论证。

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Well, cable cars came before buses and cable cars came before cars.

有线缆车的使用比公共汽车和汽车都要早。

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It was not immediately clear if the arrests came before or after the latest Israeli demands.

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You have come to embody duty, honor, country, just like all those who came before you.

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All of us are here today because of women like these who came before us.

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